THE FEMORAL ARTERY. 815 
the preceding. It pierces the femoral sheath and the eribriform fascia, and 
passes upwards and inwards between the superficial and deep layers of the 
superficial fascia of the abdominal wall towards the umbilicus. It supplies the 
inguinal glands and the integument, and anastomoses with its fellow of the 
opposite side, with the deep epigastric, and with the superficial circumflex iliac and 
superficial external pudic arteries. 
(¢) The superficial external pudic artery (a. pudenda externa superficialis) 
also springs from the front of the femoral artery, and, after piercing the 
femoral sheath and the cribriform fascia, runs upwards and inwards towards the 
Sartorius 
Tensor fasciz Femoral artery 
femoris 
Que Femoral vein 
Superficial cir- 
cumflex iliac | ‘ . —— Graal 1 
MM : —— wal cane 
artery | Hh) \) _————— rural cana 
Rectus femoris 
Superficial ex- 
~ ternal pudic 
Psoas and iliaeus— ; 
=j «artery 
Profunda artery — 
External cir- 
cumflex artery ~ 
Deep external pudic 
arLlery 
Vastus externus 
Long saphenous vein 
Vastus internus 
“Adductor longus 
Gracilis 
Fic. 574.—THE FEMORAL VESSELS IN SCARPA’S TRIANGLE. 
spine of the pubis, where it crosses superficial to the spermatic cord. It supplies 
the integument of the lower part of the, abdominal wall, the root of the dorsum of 
the penis in the male, and the region of the mons Veneris in the female, and it 
anastomoses with its fellow of the opposite side, the deep external pudic, the 
dorsal artery of the penis, and the superficial epigastric arteries. 
(2) Muscular branches are distributed to the pectineus and the adductor 
muscles on the inner side, and to the sartorius and the vastus internus on the 
outer side, 
(3) The deep external pudic artery (a. pudenda externa profunda) rises from the 
inner side of the femoral. It runs inwards, across the front of the pectineus, and in 
front of or behind the adductor longus, to the inner side of the thigh; it then 
