Ventral pharyngeal artery

The dorsal aorta will give rise to the third aortic arch which, subsequently, will reach the remnant of the ventral pharyngeal artery, becoming the external carotid artery. As the proximal dorsal aorta involutes, the ventral aorta becomes the definitive common carotid artery dividing into a primitive internal carotid artery and external carotid artery (Fig. 18.2). 

The original ventral pharyngeal artery turns into the facio-lingual system, while the hyoid artery and the stapedial artery will evolve to become the internal maxillary artery and the middle meningeal artery (Figs. 18.3, 18.4)... 

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