Profunda femoris artery
| Profunda femoris artery | |
|---|---|
 The profunda femoris artery, femoral artery and their major branches - right thigh, anterior view. (Femoral profunda labeled at right center.) | |
 Structures surrounding right hip-joint. | |
| Details | |
| Latin | arteria profunda femoris |
Source | femoral artery |
Branches |
Lateral femoral circumflex Medial femoral circumflex Perforating |
| profunda femoris vein | |
| Identifiers | |
| Gray's | p.629 |
| Dorlands /Elsevier | a_61/12155579 |
| TA | A12.2.16.020 |
| FMA | 20741 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
The profunda femoris artery (also known as the deep femoral artery, or the deep artery of the thigh) is a branch of the femoral artery that, as its name suggests, travels more deeply (posteriorly) than the rest of the femoral artery.
Structure
The profunda femoris branches off the femoral artery soon after its origin. It travels down the thigh closer to the femur than the femoral artery, running between the pectineus and the adductor longus, and running on the posterior side of adductor longus. The deep femoral artery does not leave the thigh.
Branches
The profunda femoris gives off the following branches:
- Lateral circumflex femoral artery
- Medial circumflex femoral artery
- Perforating arteries - perforate the adductor magnus muscle to the posterior and medial compartments of the thigh.
Additional images
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Cross-section through the middle of the thigh.
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A schema of the arteries of the thigh. The profunda femoris artery is labeled as "deep artery of the thigh" at the center left.
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Deep femoris artery
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Deep femoris artery
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Deep femoris artery
See also
References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
External links
- Profunda_femoris_deep_femoral_artery at the Duke University Health System's Orthopedics program
- Anatomy figure: 12:04-03 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Arteries of the lower extremity shown in association with major landmarks."
- Cross section image: pelvis/pelvis-e12-15 - Plastination Laboratory at the Medical University of Vienna
- MedEd at Loyola grossanatomy/dissector/labs/le/ant_th_leg/main.html
- antthigh at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (femoralart)
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