part of part of develops from develops from connecting branch of vessel supplies blood to Homo sapiens subclavian artery vertebral artery basilar artery http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Circle_of_Willis_en.svg A major artery that supplues the hindbrain and runs along the ventral keel of the hindbrain. FMA:50542 MA:0001920 TAO:0005002 Wikipedia:Basilar_artery EMAPA:17307 ZFA:0005002 EHDAA:5285 Artery that runs along the ventral keel of the hindbrain. It lies between the primordial hindbrain channels(PHBC). It irrigates the hindbrain and is connected, through the hindbrain, to the PHBC by the central arteries. EHDAA2:0000163 UBERON:0001633 BA UMLS:C0004811 The unpaired artery that is formed by the union of the two vertebral arteries, runs forward within the skull just under the pons, divides into the two posterior cerebral arteries, and supplies the pons, cerebellum, posterior part of the cerebrum, and the inner ear[MP]. VHOG:0000237 MESH:D001488 SCTID:244215004 GAID:474 NCIT:C12676 The major artery supplying the hindbrain, the basilar artery, runs along the ventral keel of the hindbrain in all vertebrates.[well established][VHOG] hindbrain vasculature of head head blood vessel systemic artery branch of vertebral artery