artery
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artery
any of the tubular thick-walled muscular vessels that convey oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body
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artery
[′ärd·ə·rē] (anatomy)
A vascular tube that carries blood away from the heart.
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The
anterior interosseous artery courses down the forearm and pierces the interosseous membrane to anastomose with the posterior interosseous and joins the dorsal carpal network.
The original axial artery persists as the
anterior interosseous artery in the forearm and the deep palmar arch in the hand.
AIN branches posterior from median nerve between 2 heads of PT and with
anterior interosseous artery it descend anterior to interosseous membrane between and deep to FPL and Flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) and supply both and terminate posterior to pronator quadratus.
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