Urethral artery

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Artery: Urethral artery
Diagram of the arteries of the penis.
Latin	arteria urethralis
Gray's	subject #155 619
Supplies	membranous urethra, glans penis
Source	internal pudendal artery or perineal artery
Dorlands/Elsevier	a_61/12156483

The urethral artery arises a short distance in front of the artery of the urethral bulb.

It runs forward and medialward, pierces the inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm and enters the corpus cavernosum urethræ, in which it is continued forward to the glans penis.

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Arteries of thorax, abdomen, and pelvis edit

pulmonary - aorta - ascending aorta right coronary (sinuatrial nodal, atrioventricular nodal, atrial, right marginal, posterior interventricular) left coronary (anterior interventricular, left circumflex, left marginal) aortic arch - brachiocephalic - thyreoidea ima - common carotid | (Gray's s141-Gray's s143) DESCENDING AORTA / THORACIC AORTA: bronchial - esophageal - posterior intercostal - subcostal | (Gray's s153) ABDOMINAL AORTA: Anterior - celiac: left gastric splenic: pancreatic branches (arteria pancreatica magna) - short gastric - left gastro-omental common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal) superior mesenteric: inferior pancreaticoduodenal - intestinal - ileocolic (appendicular) - right colic - middle colic inferior mesenteric: left colic - sigmoid - superior rectal Posterior - Visceral: middle suprarenal - renal (inferior suprarenal) - testicular/ovarian - Parietal: inferior phrenic (superior suprarenal) - lumbar - median sacral Terminal branches: common iliac - marginal - internal iliac | (Gray's s154) INTERNAL ILIAC: Anterior: umbilical (superior vesical, to ductus deferens) - inferior vesical - middle rectal - uterine (azygos of the vagina) - vaginal - obturator internal pudendal: (inferior rectal, perineal, artery of the urethral bulb, urethral, deep artery of the penis, dorsal artery of the penis) inferior gluteal (accompanying of ischiadic nerve, crucial anastomosis) Posterior: iliolumbar - lateral sacral - superior gluteal | (Gray's s155) EXTERNAL ILIAC: inferior epigastric (cremasteric) - deep circumflex iliac | (Gray's s156)