Arteries (for the final) Flashcards
What are the major branches of the right coronary artery?
- Conus branch
- SA branch
- Atrial branches (mostly for right atrium)
- Ventricular branches (for right ventricle)
- Right marginal branch
- Posterior interventricular branch
What are the major branches of the left coronary artery?
- Anterior interventricular branch
- Conus branch (for LV outflow tract)
- Diagonal branches
- Septal branches
- Circumflex branch
- Atrioventricular branches
- Left marginal branch
- Atrial branches
What are the different parts of the aorta, and what are their vertebral column ranges?
- Ascending Aorta: T4-T3
- Aortic Arch: to top of T2
- Descending Aorta: T3-T4
- Thoracic Aorta: T3-T12
- Abdominal Aorta: T12-L4
What’s the first branch of the aorta?
Right and Left Coronary Arteries
(this card is just because it’s easy to forget…)
What are the branches of the aortic arch?
- Brachiocephalic trunk (on right side). divides into:
- Right subclavian artery
- Right common carotid artery
- Left common carotid artery
- Left subclavian artery
What are the branches of the thoracic aorta?
Parietal branches:
- Posterior intercostal arteries
- Superior Phrenic arteries
Visceral branches:
- Bronchial branches
- Esophageal branches
- Pericardial branches
- Mediastinal branches
What are the branches of the abdominal aorta?
Parietal branches
- Inferior phrenic arteries
- Lumbar arteries
- Median sacral arteries
Paired visceral branches
- Middle suprarenal artery
- Renal artery
- Ovarian artery
- Testicular artery
Unpaired visceral branches:
- Celiac Trunk
- Superior Mesneteric Artery
- Inferior Mesenteric Artery
What are the parts and branches of the subclavian artery?
- Thoracic Part
- Vertebral artery
- Internal Thoracic artery
- Thyrocervical trunk
- Muscular or Scalene Part (between anterior and middle scalenus muscles)
- Costocervical trunk
- Cervical Part
- Dorsal Scapular Artery
Subclavian artery goes under clavicle and becomes axillary artery @ border of the first rib
*“Ansa Subclavia” is a loop between the middle cervical ganglion and stellate ganglion that wraps around subclavian artery in its thoracic part
What are the parts and branches of the axillary artery?
- Suprapectoral (1st) part
- Superior thoracic artery
- Retropectoral (2nd) part
- Thoracoacromial artery
- Lateral thoracic artery
- Infrapectoral (3rd) part
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Subscapular artery. 2 branches:
- Circumflex scapular artery
- Thoracodorsal artery
- Anterior circumflex humeral artery
- Posterior circumflex humeral artery
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Subscapular artery. 2 branches:
Becomes the brachial artery after passing the lower margin of teres major
What are the 3 major arteries of the arm and forearm?
Brachial artery (arm) splits into:
Radial artery
Ulnar artery
What are the branches of the brachial artery?
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Deep brachial artery (runs btwn lateral and medial heads of triceps brachii). Branches:
- Deltoid branch
- Middle collateral artery
- Radial collateral artery
- Humeral nutrient artery
- Superior ulnar collateral artery
- Inferior ulnar collateral artery
- Cubital articular anastomosis: plexus of elbow joint formed by brachial, radial, and ulnar arteries
What are the branches of the radial artery?
- Radial recurrent artery
- Palmar carpal branch
- Superficial palmar branch (joins superficial arch that is mainly supplied by the ulnar artery)
- Dorsal carpal branch
- First dorsal metacarpal branch: for thumb. aka Princeps Pollicis
What is the course of the radial artery?
- Initially between pronator teres and brachioradialis
- Passes between brachioradialis and flexor carpi radialis, continues on to where you can feel the radial pulse
- Then runs on lateral surface of wrist to the radial foveola, and passes through first interdigital space to reach the palm
What are the branches of the ulnar artery?
- Ulnar recurrent artery
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Common interosseus artery. 2 branches:
- Anterior interosseus
- Posterior interosseus
- Palmar carpal branch
- Dorsal carpal branch
- Deep palmar branch: anastomoses with the deep arch primarily supplied by the radial artery
What are the branches of the superficial palmar arch?
- Common palmar digital arteries
- Proper palmar digital arteries
What are the branches of the external carotid artery?
- Superior thyroid artery
- Ascending pharyngeal artery
- Lingual artery
- Facial artery
- Occipital artery
- Posterior auricular artery
- Maxillary artery
- Superficial temporal artery
What are the branches of the first part of the maxillary artery?
Mandibular Part
- Deep auricular
- Anterior tympanic
- Middle meningeal
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Inferior Alveolar. Branches:
- Mylohyoid
- Mental
- Accessory Meningeal
What are the branches of the second part of the maxillary artery?
Pterygoid Part
- Deep Posterior Temporal Artery
- Pterygoid arteries
- Deep anterior temporal artery
- Pterygoid arteries (#2)
- Masseteric artery
- Buccal artery
What are the branches of the 3rd part of the maxillary artery?
Pterygopalatine Part
- Posterior Superior Alveolar Artery
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Infraorbital artery. Branches:
- Anterior superior alveolar
- Middle superior alveolar
- Sphenopalatine artery
- Artery of Vidrian Canal
- Pharyngeal arteries
What are the branches of the celiac trunk?
(and the branches after that…)
- Left Gastric Artery
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Common Hepatic Artery
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Proper Hepatic artery
- Left branch
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Right branch
- Cystic
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Gastroduodenal artery
- Right gastro-omental
- Superior Pancreaticoduodenal (anterior and posterior branches)
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Proper Hepatic artery
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Splenic Artery
- Pancreatic branches
- Left Gastro-omental
- Short gastrics
- Posterior Gastrics
What are the branches of the superior mesenteric artery?
- Inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery
- Jejunal branches
- Ileal branches
- Ileocolic artery
- appendicular artery
- Anterior and posterior cecal artery
- Right colic
- Middle colic
What are the branches of the inferior mesenteric artery?
- Left Colic
- Sigmoid Branches
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Superior rectal artery
- (Sudek anastomosis between the last sigmoid branch and superior rectal artery)
What are the branches of the external iliac?
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Inferior Epigastric Artery
- Pubic branch
- Cremastric artery
- Artery of Round Ligament of the Uterus
- Deep circumflex iliac artery
What are the parietal branches of the internal iliac artery?
- Iliolumbar
- Lateral Sacral
- Obturator
- Superior Gluteal
- Inferior Gluteal
