The posterior meningeal artery is one of the meningeal branches of the ascending pharyngeal artery (and is typically considered the terminal branch of said artery). It passes through the jugular foramen to enter the posterior cranial fossa. It is the largest vessel supplying the dura of the posterior cranial fossa.
It may occasionally arise from other arteries (e.g. the occipital artery).
It forms anastomoses with the branches of the middle meningeal artery, and the vertebral artery.
References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 558 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
- Diagnostic Cerebral Angiography, 2nd edition, Anne G. Osborn
