Dorsal digital veins of the foot

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Vein: Dorsal digital veins of the foot
Latin venae digitales dorsales pedis
Gray's subject #173 671
Drains to dorsal metatarsal veins
Dorlands/Elsevier v_05/12850080

On the dorsum of the foot the dorsal digital veins receive, in the clefts between the toes, the intercapitular veins from the plantar cutaneous venous arch and join to form short common digital veins.

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