DEEP VEINS OF THE LOWER LIMB 



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municate at frequent intervals with each other across it. They are known as the 

 venae comitantes. From the knee upward there is a single main vein to each 

 artery, except at the back of the thigh and in the gluteal region, where there are 

 commonly two. 



Fig. 540. — The Veins of the Sole of the Foot. (After Toldt, "Atlas of Human Anatomy,' 



Rebman, London and New York.) 



Intercapitular veins 



Posterior tibial veins -«.-: 

 Posterior tibial muscle 

 Posterior tibial artery- 

 Great saphenous vein 



Flexor digitorum 

 longus tendon 



'- Plantar digital veins 



.., Plantar metatarsal 

 veins 



-Plantar venous arch 



Lateral plantar artery 

 and accompanying 

 veins 



Deep branch of the 

 . medial plantar and 

 veins 



Venous rete of the heel 



Small saphenous vein 



The veins of the foot and leg. — The deep veins of the foot become separated 

 from the superficial where the plantar metatarsal veins [vv. metatarsese plantares] 

 leave the plantar digital and intercapitular veins to accompany the plantar meta- 

 tarsal arteries. The plantar metatarsal veins empty into the plantar venous arch 

 [arcus venosus plantaris] which accompanies the arterial plantar arch in the depth 

 of the sole. (fig. 540) 



