Unit 2_The Thigh Flashcards
What is a subcutaneous tissue that includes a superficial fatty layer, deep membranous layer, deep investing layer, or Fascia Latae, which is condensed laterally to form the IT band?
Fascia of the thigh
What does the obturator nerve of the anterior branch provide cutaneous innervation to?
Medial thigh
What does the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve (S1-S3) provide cutaneous innervation to?
Inferior Cluneal Nerve Branches
What provides circulation to the lower extremity?
Aorta –>
Common Iliac Artery –>
External Iliiac Artery –>
Femoral Artery
What is the distal continuation of the External Iliac Artery?
Femoral Artery
What branches make up the Femoral Artery Branches?
Superficial Epigastric Artery
Superficial Circumflex Iliac Artery
When does the External Iliac Artery turn into the Femoral Artery?
After it passes the Inguinal ligament
What artery branches make up the deep femoral artery branches?
Lateral Femoral Circumflex artery
Medial Femoral Circumflex artery
Four Perforating arteries (perforate Adductor Magnus muscle)
What artery arises from the internal iliac artery, exits through the obturator canal and supplies the medial compartment of the thigh?
Obturator artery
What are veins of the thigh?
External iliac vein (deep)
Deep vein of thigh (deep)
Femoral vein (deep)
Great saphenous vein (superficial)
What superficial vein begins on the dorsum of the foot, courses anterior to the Medial Malleolus, passes through fossa ovalis (saphenous opening) and terminates in the Femoral Vein?
Great Saphenous Vein
What superficial vein is commonly harvested for a coronary bypass graft?
Great Saphenous vein
What lymph node is an example of an Inguinal lymph node?
Cloquet’s Node
What superficial vein begins on the Lateral Dorsum of the foot, courses posterior to the Lateral Malleous and terminates in the Popliteal vein?
Small Saphenous vein
What are the muscle compartments of the thigh?
Anterior Compartment (Extension of the knee)
Medial Compartment (Adduction of the knee)
Posterior Compartment (Flexion of the knee)