Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Superficial palmar branch of radial artery

Branch of an artery of the forarm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Superficial palmar branch of radial artery
Remove ads

The superficial palmar branch of the radial artery arises from the radial artery, just where this vessel is about to wind around the lateral side of the wrist.

Quick Facts Details, Source ...

Running forward, it passes through, occasionally over, the thenar muscles, which it supplies, and sometimes anastomoses with the terminal portion of the ulnar artery, completing the superficial palmar arch.

This vessel varies considerably in size: usually it is very small, and ends in the muscles of the thumb; sometimes it is as large as the continuation of the radial artery itself.

Remove ads

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 594 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads