Vena 

 sapkena 



ft. SAPHEN. MAJ. 



163 



N. PERON. PROF. 



DORS. DIGIT 



507. The Nerves at the Dorsum of the Foot. 



extensor proprius pottids ; it at first accompanies the anterior tibial artery, 

 lying to its outer side, then lies in front of it and again at its outer 

 side at the ankle-joint, from where it passes to the dorsum of the foot. 

 It divides into an external branch for the M. extensor digitorum brevis and 

 an internal branch, which, communicating with the internal division 

 of the musculo-cutaneous nerve, supplies the adjacent sides of the large and 

 second toe. 



2. The internal popliteal, N. popliteus intcrnus, descends along 

 the back of the thigh through the middle of the popliteal space, to the 

 lower part of the M. popliteus, where it passes with the artery beneath 

 the arch of the soleus, and becomes the posterior tibial. Its branches 

 are the external or short s a p h e n o u s nerve, N. suralis or N. com- 

 municans poplitd which receives a communicating branch from the exter- 

 nal popliteal nerve and is distributed to the integument along the outer 



Heitzmann, Atlas. II. 22 



