Acetabular branch of medial circumflex femoral artery

Artery in the hip Blood vessel

Acetabular branch
The profunda femoris artery, femoral artery and their major branches - right thigh, frontal view (circumflex femoral arteries labeled)
Details
Source	Medial circumflex femoral artery
Identifiers
Latin	ramus acetabularis arteriae circumflexae femoris medialis
TA98	A12.2.16.024 A12.2.15.010
TA2	4689
FMA	20813
Anatomical terminology[edit on Wikidata]

The acetabular branch is an artery in the hip that arises from the medial circumflex femoral artery opposite the acetabular notch and enters the hip-joint beneath the transverse ligament in company with an articular branch from the obturator artery. It supplies the fat in the bottom of the acetabulum, and is continued along the ligament to the head of the femur.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 630 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

In femoral canal	superficial epigastric superficial circumflex iliac superficial external pudendal deep external pudendal anterior scrotal ♂
Descending genicular	saphenous branch articular branches
Deep femoral artery	medial circumflex femoral ascending descending superficial deep acetabular lateral circumflex femoral descending transverse ascending perforating Cruciate anastomosis Trochanteric anastomosis

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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