common plantar digital artery

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Introduction

One of 4 arteries on each side when present as a variant.

Origin

superficial plantar arch

Branches

  • perforating branches

Anastomoses

plantar metatarsal arteries

More general terms

Additional terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
  2. Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, 10th edition, AMR Agur & MJ Lee (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1999