Leg and Arm Arterial supply

Question 1

Where does the internal iliac artery go?

Answer 1

Enters the pelvic cavity

Question 2

What supplies the bladder and external genitalia with blood?

Answer 2

Internal iliac artery

Question 3

What supplies the internal/external walls of the pelvis and the medial thigh with blood?

Answer 3

Internal iliac artery

Question 4

What supplies the vagina and uterus with blood?

Answer 4

Internal iliac artery

Question 5

What does the external iliac change into? Where does this happen?

Answer 5

Femoral artery

When it passes the inguinal ligament

Question 6

What does the femoral artery turn into?

Answer 6

Popliteal artery

Question 7

Where is the popliteal artery?

Answer 7

Behind the knee

Question 8

What does the popliteal artery turn into?

Answer 8

Anterior tibial artery- Arises off popliteal

Posterior tibial artery- Continuation of popliteal

Question 9

What does the anterior tibialis turn into?

Answer 9

Dorsalis pedis- at the foot

Question 10

What does the dorsalis pedis turn into?

Answer 10

Arcuate arteries

Question 11

What forms the dorsal arch?

Answer 11

Arcuate arteries

Question 12

What do the arcuate arteries feed?

Answer 12

Metatarsal and digital arteries

Question 13

At the foot, what does the posterior tibial artery become?

Answer 13

Lateral and medial plantar arteries

Question 14

How is the plantar arch formed?

Answer 14

By the lateral and medial plantar arteries

Question 15

What does the plantar arch supply?

Answer 15

The digital arteries that supply the toes

Question 16

What does the peroneal artery come from?

What is it also known as?

Answer 16

Posterior tibial artery

Fibular artery

Question 17

What does the fibular artery supply?

Where does it end?

Answer 17

The lateral muscles of the leg

In a network of arteries in the heel

Question 18

How does the subclavian artery get to the right and left sides of the body?

Answer 18

Right side: brachiocephalic artery turns into the subclavian

Left side: subclavian comes off the arch of the aorta

Question 19

Where does the subclavian end?

Answer 19

At the border of the first rib?

Question 20

What are the borders of the axillary artery?

Answer 20

First rib to the tendon of teres major

Question 21

What does the axillary artery turn into?

Answer 21

Brachial artery

Question 22

What does the brachial artery turn into?

Answer 22

Radial and ulnar arteries

Question 23

How are the palmar arteries formed?

Answer 23

By the anastamosis of the radial and ulnar arteries

Question 24

What are the two palmar arches?

Answer 24

Deep palmar arch

Superficial palmar arch

Question 25

What supplies the metacarpal arteries of the hand?

Answer 25

The deep palmar arch

Question 26

How are the fingers supplied with blood?

Answer 26

By the digital arteries, via superficial palmar arch