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DISEASES OF THE HORSE'S FOOT 



The ramifications of these series freely anastomose with 

 corresponding vessels of the opposite side. 



4. At the Superior Border of the Lateral Cartilage, the 

 Artery of the Plantar Cushion. This is directed obliquely 



Fig. 14. — The Arteries of the Foot. 



1, The digital ; 2, the perpendicular — (a) its ascending branch, (h) its descend- 

 ing branch ; 3, circumflex artery of coronary cushion ; 4, the preplantar 

 (ungual) artery — this is seen issuing from the preplantar foramen, and 

 distributing numerous ascending (c) and descending ('/) branches (the 

 latter concur in forming the circumflex artery of the toe) ; 5, the 

 circumflex artery of the toe ; 6, at the point marked (*) the terminal 

 Ijranch of the digital — namely, the plantar ungual — is hidden behind 

 the lateral cartilage ; 7, the latei'al cartilage. 



downwards and backwards, under cover of the cartilage, 

 and is distributed to the middle portion of the comple- 

 mentary apparatus of the os pedis, as well as to the villous 

 tissue and the coronet. A branch of it is turned forwards 



