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tibia, (3) fiami articulares are expended in the ligaments of the 

 tarsus. 



Opposite the joint, between the tibia and the talus, the anterior 

 tibial artery changes it name to that of the dorsal artery of the pes (a. 



M. tibialis anterior. 



V. saphena.. 



Tibia. 



M. flexor digitorum 

 longus. 



A. tibialis posterior.. 



V. recurrens tibialis. 

 X. plantaris medialis.. 



A. tarsea medialis. 

 X. plantaris lateralis. 



M. plantaris. 



M. peronseua tertius. 



M. extensor digitorum longus. 



^.-^N. peroneeiiB pro- 



■ ' fundus. 



--V. tibialis anterior. 

 — -A. tibialis anterior. 



M. peronams longus. 



M. flexor digitorum 

 profundus. 



= Calcaneus. 



_M. gastrocnemius. 



Fig. 98.— Section across the Most Distal Part of the Leg at the Level indicated 



by S in Fig. 81. 



The irregular black area behind the tibia is the upward extension of the 

 talocrural (hock) joint-cavity. 



dorsalis pedis). This vessel crosses the tarsus obliquely, mainly under 

 cover of the tendon of the extensor digitorum longus, and, on reaching 

 the base of the third metatarsal bone, becomes the lateral dorsal meta- 

 tarsal artery. The dorsalis pedis gives off the large perforating tarsal 

 artery (a. tarsea perforans) that, traversing the canal formed by the 

 third (cuneiform) and fourth (cuboid) tarsal and the central (scaphoid) 



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