"supply: base of skull; anastomosis with anterior and posterior cerebral circulations"
"a number of meningeal arteries (they supply the content of foramen lacerum, hypoglossal canal and jugular foramen; may terminate as the posterior meningeal artery which supplies the dura of the posterior fossa)"
"The ascending pharyngeal artery has a number of small unnamed branches as it ascends, supplying adjacent muscles (longus capitis and longus colli), nerves (hypoglossal, glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves), sympathetic trunk and regional lymph nodes 1."