Three common palmar digital arteries arise from the

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of the superficial palmar arch and proceed distally on the second, third, and fourth lumbricales muscles. Alternative names for these arteries are: common volar digital arteries, ulnar metacarpal arteries, arteriae digitales palmares communes, or aa. digitales volares communes. Each of these arteries receive the corresponding

volar metacarpal artery The palmar metacarpal arteries (volar metacarpal arteries, palmar interosseous arteries) are three or four arteries that arise from the convexity of the deep palmar arch. Structure The palmar metacarpal arteries arise from the convexity of the d ...

and then divide into a pair of

proper palmar digital arteries The proper palmar digital arteries travel along the sides of the phalanges (along the contiguous sides of the index, middle, ring, and little fingers), each artery lying just below (dorsal to) its corresponding digital nerve. Alternative names f ...

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Additional images

File:Gray527.png, Muscles and arteries of the right

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and hand, including the superficial palmar archtitled ''Superficial Volar Arch'' in this picture, which is an alternative term and the ''common palmar digital arteries'' branching off of it. Palmar aspect with the

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part (

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) at the top and the distal part ( hand) at the bottom. File:Common palmar digital arteries.jpg, Dissection of right hands palmar side with instrument inserted under the common palmar digital arteries

Footnotes and references

External links

* - "Palm of the hand, superficial dissection, anterior view" Arteries of the upper limb {{circulatory-stub