Media colic artery

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The inferior mesenteric artery and its branches.

The arteria colica media ("middle large intestinal artery ") is an artery that emerges from the upper intestinal artery ( arteria mesenterica superior or cranialis). It arises below the pancreas and divides into a right branch ( ramus dexter ) and a left branch ( ramus sinister ). The right branch anastomoses with the right colic artery , the left with the left colic artery . The nodes lymphoidei colici medii lie along the arteria colica media .

The arteria colica media supplies the transverse colon (colon transversum).

literature

Uwe Gille: Cardiovascular and immune system, Angiologia. In: Franz-Viktor Salomon, Hans Geyer, Uwe Gille (Ed.): Anatomy for veterinary medicine. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Enke, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8304-1075-1 , pp. 404-463.