Acromial branch of suprascapular artery

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Artery: Acromial branch of suprascapular artery
The scapular and circumflex arteries. (Acromial branch of suprascapular artery visible but not labeled.)
Latin ramus acromialis arteriae suprascapularis
Gray's subject #148 582
Source suprascapular artery   
Dorlands
/ Elsevier    		 r_02/12688653

The suprascapular artery gives of an acromial branch, which pierces the Trapezius and supplies the skin over the acromion, anastomosing with the thoracoacromial artery.


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List of arteries of head and neck
CC/EC
cervical branches (ascending palatine, tonsillar, submental, glandular) - facial branches (inferior labial, superior labial/nasal septum, lateral nasal, angular)
CC/IC
orbital group: posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal (anterior septal, anterior lateral nasal, anterior meningeal) - lacrimal (lateral palpebral) - medial palpebral - terminal (supraorbital, supratrochlear, dorsal nasal)
ocular group: central retinal - ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior) - hypophysial (superior, inferior)
SC
meningeal - spinal (posterior, anterior) - cerebellar (PICA)
basilar: pontine - labyrinthine - cerebellar (AICA, SCA) - cerebral (PCA)