Ascending pharyngeal artery
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The ascending pharyngeal artery is an artery in the neck that supplies the pharynx.
It is the smallest branch of the external carotid and is a long, slender vessel, deeply seated in the neck, beneath the other branches of the external carotid and under the stylopharyngeus muscle. It lies just superior to the bifurcation of the common carotid arteries.