Ascending branch of medial circumflex femoral artery

Ascending branch of medial circumflex femoral artery
The profunda femoris artery, femoral artery and their major branches - right thigh, front view (circumflex femoral arteries labeled)
Details
Source	Medial circumflex femoral artery
Identifiers
Latin	Ramus ascendens arteriae circumflexae femoris medialis
Dorlands /Elsevier	r_02/12688898
TA	A12.2.16.025
FMA	20811
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The Ascending branch of medial circumflex femoral artery is a small artery in the thigh. It branches of the medial circumflex femoral artery and is distributed to the adductor muscles of the hip. It anastomoses with the obturator artery.

It also serves as an important blood supply to the head of the femur.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Arteries of the human leg

Inferior epigastric

cremasteric ♂ / round ligament ♀

Deep circumflex iliac

no major branches

Femoral

In femoral canal	superficial epigastric superficial circumflex iliac superficial external pudendal deep external pudendal (anterior scrotal ♂

Descending genicular	saphenous branch articular branches

Profunda femoris	medial circumflex femoral (ascending, superficial, deep, acetabular) lateral circumflex femoral (descending, transverse, ascending) perforating

Popliteal

Genicular	superior genicular (medial, lateral) middle genicular inferior genicular (medial, lateral)

Sural	no major branches

Anterior tibial	tibial recurrent posterior anterior) anterior malleolar medial lateral dorsalis pedis: tarsal (medial, lateral)

Tibial-fibular (Tibial-peroneal) trunk	Posterior tibial circumflex fibular medial plantar lateral plantar fibular (peroneal)

Arches	arcuate dorsal metatarsal first dorsal metatarsal deep plantar dorsal digital arteries plantar arch plantar metatarsal common plantar digital proper plantar digital

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