Palmar metacarpal arteries

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Palmar metacarpal arteries

The palmar metacarpal arteries (volar metacarpal arteries, palmar interosseous arteries) are three or four arteries that arise from the convexity of the deep palmar arch.

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Palmar metacarpal arteries
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Ulnar and radial arteries. Deep view (Volar metacarpal visible at bottom center).
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SourceDeep palmar arch
VeinPalmar metacarpal veins
Identifiers
Latinarteriae metacarpales palmares,
arteriae metacarpeae volares
TA98A12.2.09.039
TA24653
FMA70802
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Structure

The palmar metacarpal arteries arise from the convexity of the deep palmar arch.[1]

They run distally upon the palmar interossei muscles. They anastomose at the clefts of the fingers with the common palmar digital arteries which arise from the superficial palmar arch.[1]

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