Anatomy study note · Lower limb

Posterior tibial artery

The larger terminal branch of the popliteal artery, supplying the back of the leg and, through the plantar arteries, the sole.

Key points

• Larger popliteal branch; with the tibial nerve.
• Fibular artery supplies the lateral compartment.
• Pulse behind the medial malleolus.
• → medial + lateral plantar arteries.
• 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. 1359–1360, 1455
• 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

• Profunda femoris artery
• Quadriceps femoris
• Retinacula of the ankle
• Saphenous nerve
• Sartorius
• Sciatic nerve
• Semimembranosus
• Semitendinosus
• Short lateral rotators of the hip
• Small saphenous vein
• Sole muscles: first layer
• Sole muscles: second layer

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