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THE VASCULAE SYSTEM. 



(O.T. Poupart's), passes 

 terminates at the opening 

 to speak of the first one 



through the proximal two-thirds of the thigh, and 

 in the adductor magnus. At one time it was customary 

 and a half inches, as far as the origin of the profunda 



A. et V., circumflexa 

 ilium profunda' 



M. sartorius- 



N. femoralis 



M. rectus femoris 



Nerve to pectineus 



Nerve to rectus femoris 



M. tensor fascife latee 



A. circumflexa femoris 

 lateralis (ramus asceudens) 



Nerve to vastus lateralis 



A. circumflexa femoris lateralis 



(ramus transversus) 



Medial cutaneous nerve of thigh 



N. saphenus 

 Nerve to vastus medialis 



Nerve to vastus lateralis 

 Nerve to vastus medialis. 



A. circumflexa femoris lateralis 

 (ramus descendens) 



M. vastus lateralis 

 M. vastus medialis 



Nerve to vastus medialis 



Ligamentum inguinale 

 M. ilio-psoas 



A. et V. iliaca externa 

 __,-_ External iliac lymph glands 

 . femoralis 



Canalis femoralis 



V. femoralis 



M. rectus femoris 



N. saphemif 



M. vastus medialis 



Kami superficiales (epigastrica, circum- 

 ?r ttexa ilium, pudenda externa) 



_ V. saphena magna 



. pectineus 



A. pudenda externa profunda 



Nerve to adductor 



longus 



N. obturatorius 



(ramus super- 



ficialis) 



.M. adductor brevis 



A. profunda femoris 

 - (ramus muscularis) 

 -M. adductor lojigus 



- M. gracilis 



M. adductor magnus 



Fascial roof of adductor canal 



_ M. adductor magnus 



A. genu suprema (ramus saphenus) 





FIG. 778. THE FEMORAL ARTERY AND ITS BRANCHES. 



NOTE. The outlines of the sartorius, the upper part of the rectus femoris, and the adductor longus 

 are indicated by broken black lines. 



branch, as the common femoral, and to say that it divided into the superfici 

 and deep femoral branches, of which the former was the direct continuation 

 the common trunk. The morphology and development of the vessel gives i 

 support for such terminology. 



