Anatomical notes / by R.J. Anderson.

  • Anderson, Richard John, 1848-1914.
Date:
1886
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    THE EXTEENAL CIECUMFLEX GIVES OFF AN INTERNAL BRANCH. In a Female Subject, on the right side, the femoral artery has the usual position, and gives off the superficial branches and the deep femoral. The latter artery gives off the circumflex and perforating arteries, and the inferior external pudic. The external circumflex arising from the outer side^ of the profunda, has the ordinary distribution at the front and outer side of the thigh. It gives off a branch one-eighth of an inch, in diameter, which passes inwards beneatir the femoral artery, and between the latter and the profunda, and divides into two branches, a transverse which passes onwards to. the adductor longus and gracflis, and a descending that is directed downwards, lying on the profunda, vein as far as the upper border of the adductor longus. It then receives a branch of communication. from the femoral, and divides immediately afterwards into two branches of which one pierces the adductor magnus, and, in the Bubstance of that muscle, reaches its >ner border. The other i3 distributed to the anterior surface of the-same muscle behind the adductor longus. The branch of communication is some- Tvhat less than an eighth of an inch in size. Tie eternal circmnflo^ haa beaa observed to give ofi the Obturator (Schwegel). || II Henle’s Op-cit, 317,