594 A MANUAL OF ANA TOMY. 



hallucis and the tibialis anticus for the lower third of the 

 leg- 



The Branches of the Anterior Tibial. 



(1) The posterior tibial recurrent. This is found when 

 dissecting the back of the leg. It runs upward between 

 the popliteus muscle and the posterior ligament of the knee 

 joint. It is a small branch and often wanting. 



(2) The anterior tibial recurrent. This is a branch of 

 considerable size that runs upward through the origin of 

 the tibialis anticus close to the bone, and supplies the outer 

 side of the front of the knee, anastomosing with the ex- 

 ternal inferior and superior articular from the popliteal and 

 the long articular branch of the external circumflex to the 

 outer side of the knee. 



(3) The muscular branches are numerous and supply the 

 muscles bordering upon the artery. 



(4) The malleolar. The external is slightly larger than 

 the internal. They pass to the external and internal mal- 

 leolar regions, which they supply ; in their course they run 

 beneath the tendons of the muscles at either side of the 

 anterior tibial artery. The internal malleolar forms an an- 

 astomosis with the posterior tibial, internal plantar, and 

 the internal calcanean ; the external, with the anterior pe- 

 roneal, the external plantar, and the tarsal branch of the 

 dorsalis pedis. 



The Anterior Peroneal. See page 633. Fig. 125. 



It is found as it appears through the interosseous mem- 

 brane, between the tibia and the fibula, about two or three 

 inches above the ankle joint. It passes downward between 

 the two bones of the leg to the front of the outer side of 

 the ankle, which it supplies, and where it enters into an 

 anastomosis with the external malleolar artery. 



