Anatomy study note · Lower limb

Femoral vein

The continuation of the popliteal vein from the adductor hiatus to the inguinal ligament, where it becomes the external iliac vein.

Key points

• Popliteal vein → external iliac vein.
• Medial to the artery at the inguinal ligament.
• Receives the great saphenous vein.
• Vessels: mesodermal, from angioblastic tissue.
• Varicose veins: incompetent valves, usually leg.
• Vein: thin wall, adventitia thickest, valves.

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Course · Tributaries · Histology · Development · Clinical notes

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 11, PDF pp. 1317–1318, 1322
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 15, PDF p. 236
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 11, PDF pp. 203–205, 205

More from the lower limb

• Femur
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• Fibularis brevis
• Fibularis longus
• Fibularis tertius
• Flexor digitorum longus
• Flexor hallucis longus
• Gastrocnemius
• Gluteal nerves
• Gluteus maximus
• Gluteus medius
• Gluteus minimus

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