Lateral plantar artery

The lateral plantar artery ( " outer soles artery ") is an artery of the foot.

Man

In humans, the lateral plantar artery, the stronger of the two branches of the posterior tibial artery is. It runs on the soles of the flexor digitorum brevis and between musculus quadratus plantae, the side of the lateral plantar nerve, diagonally to the side and towards the toe base. It provides the skin and the muscles of the outer side of the foot and anastomoses with the lateral tarsal artery and arteria arcuata. At the base of the fifth metatarsal, the lateral plantar artery flows into the deep plantar arch ( deep plantar arch ) and so also takes on the blood supply to the plantar side of the toes.

Comparative Anatomy

In animals, the lateral plantar artery is the weaker of the two branches of the ramus caudalis of the arteria saphena. In horses they fed together with the medial plantar artery, the superficial plantar arterial system ( arteries plantar digital communes). In general, the lateral plantar artery are tributaries of the deep plantar arch and participates in it - albeit to a lesser extent - on the blood supply of the hind foot.

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