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Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919, ed Keen, William W. (William Williams), b. 1837
Subjects: Human anatomy Anatomy
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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r brevis pol-licis, then between the Adductor and Flexor brevis pollicis, along the ulnar sideof the metacarpal bone of the thumb, to the base of the first phalanx, where itdivides into two branches, which run along the sides of the palmar aspect of thethumb and form an arch on the under surface of the last phalanx, from whichbranches are distributed to the integument and pulp of the thumb. The radialis indicis arises close to the preceding, descends between the Abduc-tor indicis and Adductor pollicis, and runs along the radial side of the index fingerto its extremity, where it anastomoses with the collateral digital artery from the RADIAL ARTERY. 565 Fig. 390. superficial palmar arch. At the lowerborder of the Adductor pollicis this vesselanastomoses with the princeps pollicis andgives a communicating branch to the su-perficial palmar arch. The perforating- arteries, three in num-ber, pass backward between the heads of Radial Recurrent Anterior UlnarRecurrent Posterior UlnarRecurrent
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Superjicialis Voice Deep branch of Ulnar Surgical Anatomy of the Radial and Ulnar Arteries. Ulnar and Radial Arteries, deep view. the last three Dorsal interossei muscles to inosculate with the dorsal interosseousarteries. The palmar interosseous, three or four in number, are branches of the deep 566 THE ARTERIES. palmar arch; they run forward upon the Interossei muscles and anastomose at theclefts of the fingers with the digital branches of the superficial arch. Ulnar Artery. The Ulnar Artery, the larger of the two subdivisions of the brachial, com-mences a little below the bend of the elbow, and crosses the inner side of theforearm obliquely inward to the commencement of its lower half; it then runsalong its ulnar border to the wrist, crosses the annular ligament on the radial sideof the pisiform bone, and passes across the palm of the hand, forming the super-ficial palmar arch, which sometimes terminates by inosculating with the super-ficialis volse, but more frequently by anastomo

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