THE LEG 337 



in front of the medial malleolus it receives tributaries from 

 the medial side of the foot. 



The Superficial Lymph Vessels of the Dorsum of the Foot 

 and the Front of the Leg. The main superficial lymph 

 vessels accompany the veins. The greater part of the lymph 

 from the dorsum of the foot passes along vessels which 

 accompany the great saphenous vein to the distal set of 

 superficial subinguinal lymph glands (p. 228), but some of 

 the lymph vessels from the lateral border of the foot, and the 

 lateral part of the dorsum, accompany the small saphenous 

 vein and terminate in the lymph glands in the popliteal 

 fossa. The lymph vessels from the front of the leg pass to 

 the larger lymph vessels which accompany the great saphenous 

 vein (Fig. 159). 



Nervi Cutanei (the cutaneous nerves of the dorsum of 

 the foot and the front of the leg). The dissector should 

 note that branches of three nerves supply the skin of the 

 front of the leg, branches of three nerves supply the dorsum 

 of the foot, arid that the dorsal aspects of the toes are, for 

 the main part, supplied by branches of three nerves, but 

 that only one nerve, the superficial peroneal, is common to all 

 three regions. 



The proximal part of the front of the leg, below the 

 patella, is supplied by the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous 

 nerve (Figs. 107, 163). 



The lateral cutaneous nerve of the /eg, a branch of the 

 common peroneal nerve, is distributed to the skin of the 

 anterior surface from the infrapatellar region to the junction 

 of the middle and distal thirds of the leg, and the re- 

 mainder of the front of the leg is supplied by the superficial 

 peroneal nerve. 



The medial side of the dorsum of the foot is supplied by 

 the saphenous nerve, the lateral side by the sural nerve, and 

 the intermediate area by the superficial peroneal nerve. 



The adjacent sides of the first and second toes are supplied 

 by the medial division of the deep peroneal nerve, the lateral 

 sides of the little toe by the sural nerve, and all the remaining 

 parts by branches of the superficial peroneal nerve. 



The skin over the terminal phalanges of the first, second, third and 

 the medial part of the fourth toes is supplied by branches of the ?nedial 

 plantar nerve. 



Nervus Peronaeus Superficialis. The superficial peroneal 

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