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Medial superior genicular artery | |
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Details | |
Branches | Branch to vastus medialis, branch to surface of the femur and the knee-joint |
Identifiers | |
Latin | arteria superior medialis genus |
TA98 | A12.2.16.035 |
TA2 | 4701 |
FMA | 22584 |
Anatomical terminology |
The medial superior genicular runs in front of the Semimembranosus and Semitendinosus, above the medial head of the Gastrocnemius, and passes beneath the tendon of the Adductor magnus.
It divides into two branches, one of which supplies the vastus medialis, anastomosing with the highest genicular and medial inferior genicular arteries; the other ramifies close to the surface of the femur, supplying it and the knee-joint, and anastomosing with the lateral superior genicular artery.
The medial superior genicular artery is frequently of small size, a condition, which is associated with an increase in the size of the highest genicular.
External links
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 633 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)