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  2. Medial circumflex femoral artery - Wikipedia

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    The ascending branch; The descending branch descends beneath the adductor brevis, to supply it and the adductor magnus; the continuation of the vessel passes backward and divides into superficial, deep, and acetabular branches. The superficial branch; The deep branch; The acetabular branch

  3. List of anatomy mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized.For mnemonics in other medical specialties, see this list of medical mnemonics.Mnemonics serve as a systematic method for remembrance of functionally or systemically related items within regions of larger fields of study, such as those found in the study of specific areas of human anatomy, such as the bones in the hand ...

  4. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    carotid pulsations with abrupt ascending and descending phases Councilman body: William Thomas Councilman: infectious disease: yellow fever, viral haemorrhagic fevers: eosinophilic globules in liver Courvoisier's law: Ludwig Georg Courvoisier: gastroenterology: obstructive jaundice: palpable gall bladder w/ painless jaundice unlikely to be ...

  5. Femoral artery - Wikipedia

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    From here, wires and catheters can be directed anywhere in the arterial system for intervention or diagnostics, including the heart, brain, kidneys, arms and legs. The direction of the needle in the femoral artery can be against blood flow (retro-grade), for intervention and diagnostic towards the heart and opposite leg, or with the flow (ante ...

  6. Lateral circumflex femoral artery - Wikipedia

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    It is the smallest branch of the lateral circumflex femoral artery and passes lateralward over the vastus intermedius, pierces the vastus lateralis, and winds around the femur, just below the greater trochanter, anastomosing on the back of the thigh with the medial femoral circumflex artery, the inferior gluteal artery, and the perforating ...

  7. Deep circumflex iliac artery - Wikipedia

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    The deep circumflex iliac artery arises from the lateral aspect of the external iliac artery nearly opposite the origin of the inferior epigastric artery.. It ascends obliquely and laterally, posterior to the inguinal ligament, contained in a fibrous sheath formed by the junction of the transversalis fascia and iliac fascia.

  8. Arterial tree - Wikipedia

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    Ascending branches; Descending branches; radial artery. radial branches in the forearm; Radial recurrent artery; Palmar carpal branch of radial artery; Superficial palmar branch of the radial artery; radial branches at the wrist; Dorsal carpal branch of radial artery; First dorsal metacarpal artery; radial branches in the hand; Princeps ...

  9. Perforating arteries - Wikipedia

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    The second perforating artery (a. perforans secunda), larger than the first, pierces the tendons of the adductores brevis and magnus, and divides into ascending and descending branches, which supply the posterior femoral muscles, anastomosing with the first and third perforating. The second artery frequently arises in common with the first.