Frackowiak H
Anat Histol Embryol. 1989 Dec;18(4):342-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.1989.tb00608.x.
Seventeen lion heads were examined. Their arteries were injected with colored supervinyl-chloride (dissolved in acetone) after which the heads were macerated biologically. The rete mirabile of the maxillary artery was located extracranially and was formed by numerous arteries that arose from the dorsal and medial surfaces of the maxillary artery. The rete released branches (rami retis) which entered the cranial cavity through the orbital fissure where they anastomosed with the intracranial segment of the internal carotid artery. The extracranial portion of the internal carotid was found to be obliterated. Some other arteries leaving the rete anastomosed with the internal ophthalmic artery before it entered the optic canal. The following further arteries left the rete: A. ethmoidalis externa, A. ophthalmica externa, rami musculares and ramus pterygoideus. The rete mirabile of the maxillary artery in the lion provides the principal source of the blood for the brain; it also supplies the orbit.
对17个狮头进行了检查。在向它们的动脉注射彩色超氯乙烯（溶解于丙酮）后，将这些狮头进行生物浸软处理。上颌动脉的奇网位于颅外，由许多从上颌动脉背侧和内侧表面发出的动脉形成。该奇网发出分支（奇网支），这些分支通过眶裂进入颅腔，在那里它们与颈内动脉的颅内段吻合。发现颈内动脉的颅外部分闭塞。离开奇网的一些其他动脉在眼内动脉进入视神经管之前与它吻合。以下动脉也离开奇网：筛外动脉、眼外动脉、肌支和翼支。狮上颌动脉的奇网为大脑提供主要血液来源；它也供应眼眶。
