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The arterial supply to the digits of the forelimb in the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2000

JIAN-LIN WANG
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China
GAO-LAN
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China
GEN-XUAN WANG
Affiliation:
The State Key Laboratory of Arid Agroecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China
HAI-YAN LI
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China
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Abstract

The arterial supply of the digits of the forelimb of the Bactrian camel is described. The arteries supplying the digits were the palmar metacarpal and common palmar digital arteries III. The palmar metacarpal artery III was the continuation of the deep medial proximal metacarpal branch which was derived from the medial branch of the radial artery. It gave rise to a nutrient branch, medial branch, lateral branch and distal perforating palmar branch at the proximal end of the distal sixth of the cannon bone (fused third and fourth metacarpal bones). The common palmar digital artery III was the continuation of the median artery, which divided into medial and lateral branches. The medial branch of common palmar digital artery III which occasionally arose from the axial palmar proper digital artery III, after giving rise to the axial proximal proximal phalangeal branch, divided into the axial and abaxial palmar proper digital arteries III. The axial palmar proper digital artery III gave off the dorsoaxial distal proximal phalangeal, dorsoaxial proximal middle phalangeal, dorsoaxial distal middle phalangeal, palmoaxial middle phalangeal, palmoaxial distal phalangeal, dorsoaxial distal phalangeal branches, coronal artery and some digital tori branches. The abaxial palmar proper digital artery III gave rise to the abaxial proximal proximal phalangeal, dorsoabaxial distal proximal phalangeal, dorsoabaxial middle phalangeal, palmoabaxial middle phalangeal, palmoabaxial distal phalangeal, dorsoabaxial distal phalangeal branches, coronal artery and some digital tori branches. The lateral branch of the common palmar digital artery III in its origin, course, branching pattern and supply in the fourth digit was similar to the medial branch of common palmar digital artery III in the third digit.

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© Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2000

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