Some observations on the cerebral arterial circles of mink (Mustela vison)

With the exception of a brief allusion to an unidentified species of Mustela with regard to cerebral vascular studies by de Vriese ('05), major information concerning the circle of Willis in mink was nonexistent until the present investigation. Brains of mink in which the cerebral arterial circles were injected with latex and subsequently hardened in formalin, revealed the primary cerebral arterial anastomosis to be ring‐like in form; all of the component vessels were patent and well formed, none was attenuated or string‐like.