FEMORAL ARTERY. 



Fig. 298. 



Fig. 29S. ANTERIOR VIEW OF THE AR- 



TERIKS OF THE PELVIS, THIUH AND KNEE 



(from Tiedemann). 



cr, anterior superior iliac spine ; b, tensor 

 A-aginse femoris muscle ; c, vastus iuternus ; 

 <1, tendon of the adductor ma^nus ; e, sar- 

 torius ; /, rectus muscle ; g, the colon lying 

 upon the left iliac artery ; 7i, urinary blad- 

 der ; 1, lower part of the abdominal aorta 

 dividing into the common iliac arteries ; 1', 

 middle sacral artery ; 2, left common iliac 

 artery ; 3, external iliac; 3', deep circum- 

 flex iliac branch ; 3", epigastric winding to 

 the inside of the spermatic cord, and giving 

 off 3'", its cremasteric branch; 4, femoral 

 artery, on the right side shown in Scarpa's 

 triangle, on the left exposed as far as 

 Hunter's canal ; 4', superficial circumflex 

 iliac and epigastric of the right side ; 4", 

 superficial pubic and inguinal branches ; 5, 

 profunda femoris artery, descending on the 

 left side behind the adductor longus ; 6, 

 external circumflex ; 6', its ascending or 

 gluteal branches; 6", its descending branches; 

 7, 7', internal circumflex artery ; 8, superior 

 perforating ; 8', second perforating branch ; 

 y, 9, muscular branches of the femoral ar- 

 tery ; 9', anastomotic branch ; 10 internal 

 superior articular branch of the popliteal; 10', inferior l>r; 



border of the sartorius muscle which forms the outer wall of the triangle, 

 and which conceals the vessel in the remainder of its course. In the first 



