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THE ARTERIES. 



on the internal face of the leg, furnishing numerous subcutaneous divisions, and terminates at 

 the hock by several slender plantar twigs, which accompany tlie flexor tendons. Among the 

 branches given oif by this vessel in its course, it is necessary to distinguish two — one which 

 follows the anterior branch of the saphena vein to the hock, where it communicates by its 

 terminal divisions with the tarsal artery ; the other arises a little lower, passes beneath the 



Fig. 372. 



Y\z. 373. 



ANTERIOR ASPECT OF HUMAN LEG AND FOOf. 



1, Tendon of insertion of the quadriceps ex- 

 tensor muscle ; 2, insertion of the ligamen- 

 tum patellre ; 3, tibia ; 4, extensor lungus 

 digitorum ; 6, peronei ; 7, inner belly of 

 gastrocnemius and soleus; 8, annular 

 ligament; 9, anterior tibial artery; 10, 

 its recurrent branch inosculating with (2) 

 inferior articular and (1) superior articular 

 arteries, branches of the popliteal; 11, 

 internal malleolar artery; 17, external 

 ditto, inosculating with anterior peroneal 

 artery, 12; 13, dorsalis pedis artery; 14, 

 tarsea and metatarsea ; 15, dorsalis hal- 

 lucis artery ; IR, continuation of dorsalis 

 pedis into sole of foot. 



POSTERIOR ASPECT OF HUMAN LEG. 



1, Tendons of inner hamstring; 2, ditto of 

 biceps; 3, popliteus muscle ; 4, flexor 

 longus digitorum; 5, libiilis posticus; 

 6, fibula; 7, peronei muscles; £>, Jowcr 

 portion of flexor longus pollicis, v/itl". itc 

 tendon ; 9, popliteal artery, sivlng off 

 articular and muscular Viranchcs; 10, an- 

 terior tibial artery; 11, posterior tibial 

 artery; 12, relative position of tendons 

 and artery; 13, peroneal artery; 14, pos- 

 terior peroneal. 



phalangeal flexor muscles, and is expended on the hock in articular and malleolar branches. In 

 the latter branch we see a trace of the 'peroneal artery of Man. The saphena itself, considered 

 as a whole, and particularly towards its inferior moiety, supplements the posterior tibial 

 artery. 



