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THE NERVES. 



The digital branches, or collaterals of the digit, and the terminal branches 

 of the plantar nerves, are three in number on each side, and accompany the 

 digital artery and vein, which, at some points, they cover with their divisions. 



Fig. 349. 



KERVES OF THE DIGIT. 



P, Plantar nerve ; B, Median branch ; c, Anterior branch ; D, Digital artery ; H, 

 Inconstant division given off to the cartilaginous bulbs ; I, I, Branch to the 

 plantar cushion ; K, Transverse coronary branch ; M, Podophyllous branch ; O, 

 Preplantar branch ; Q, Descending ramuscule to the fissure of the patilobes ; R, 

 Eamuscules accompanying the digital artery in the plantar fissure ; V, Vein 

 whose presence is not constant, and which sometimes accompanies the plantar 

 nerve throughout its phalangeal course. 



