connecting branch of vessel supplies blood to basilar artery superior cerebellar artery SCTID:244214000 NCIT:C33669 Wikipedia:Superior_cerebellar_artery The superior cerebellar artery (SCA) arises near the termination of the basilar artery. It passes lateralward, immediately below the oculomotor nerve, which separates it from the posterior cerebral artery, winds around the cerebral peduncle, close to the trochlear nerve, and, arriving at the upper surface of the cerebellum, divides into branches which ramify in the pia mater and anastomose with those of the inferior cerebellar arteries. Several branches are given to the pineal body, the anterior medullary velum, and the tela chorioidea of the third ventricle. [WP,unvetted]. FMA:50573 EMAPA:19309 EHDAA2:0000681 UBERON:0001635 MA:0001934 metencephalon pineal body cerebellum cerebellar artery branch of basilar artery