Trifurcation (medicine)

Trifurcation (from Latin tria "three" and furca "fork") describes in medicine the branching of blood vessels into three branches. Usually the branching of the arteria poplitea into the arteria tibialis anterior , the arteria fibularis and the arteria tibialis posterior or the confluence of the corresponding veins is meant.

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