Anatomy study note · Lower limb
Anterior tibial artery
The smaller terminal branch of the popliteal artery, supplying the anterior compartment of the leg; it becomes the dorsalis pedis artery in front of the ankle.
Key points
- Popliteal → through the interosseous membrane.
- With the deep fibular nerve.
- Becomes dorsalis pedis between the malleoli.
- Lower limb axis artery: 5th lumbar intersegmental.
- Femoral artery is a new vessel.
- Artery: intima / media (smooth muscle) / adventitia.
- Most named arteries are muscular; aorta is elastic.
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Written from
- Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 11, PDF pp. 1351–1352
- Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 15, PDF p. 258
- BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 11, PDF pp. 197–199
More from the lower limb
- Biceps femoris
- Common fibular nerve
- Cruciate ligaments
- Deep fibular nerve
- Deep veins of the leg and foot
- Dorsalis pedis artery
- Extensor digitorum brevis
- Extensor digitorum longus
- Extensor hallucis longus
- Femoral artery
- Femoral nerve
- Femoral vein
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