Common digital veins

Common digital veins
Details
Latin venae digitales communes pedis
Dorlands
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v_05/12850076

Anatomical terminology

On the dorsum of the foot the dorsal digital veins receive, in the clefts between the toes, the intercapitular veins from the plantar venous arch and join to form short common digital veins which unite across the distal ends of the metatarsal bones in a dorsal venous arch.

References

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


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