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Medial inferior genicular artery

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Blood vessel
Medial inferior genicular artery
The femoral artery. (Medial inf. genicular labeled at lower right.)
Anterior tibial and dorsalis pedis arteries. (Medial inferior genicular labeled at upper right.)
Details
BranchesBranch to popliteus
SuppliesUpper end of the tibia, knee-joint
Identifiers
Latinarteria inferior medialis genus
TA98A12.2.16.039
TA24705
FMA43889
Anatomical terminology[edit on Wikidata]

The medial inferior genicular is an artery of the leg.

Course

It first descends along the upper margin of the popliteus, to which it gives branches; it then passes below the medial condyle of the tibia, beneath the tibial collateral ligament, at the anterior border of which it ascends to the front and medial side of the joint, to supply the upper end of the tibia and the knee-joint, anastomosing with the lateral inferior and medial superior genicular arteries.

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 633 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

See also

Arteries of the human leg
Inferior epigastric
Deep circumflex iliac
  • no major branches
Femoral
In femoral canal
Descending genicular
  • saphenous branch
  • articular branches
Deep femoral artery
Popliteal
Genicular
Sural
  • no major branches
Anterior tibial
Tibial-fibular (Tibial-peroneal) trunk
Arches
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