Memoranda on difficult subjects ... / [Mark Noble Bower].

  • Bower, Mark Noble.
Date:
1856?
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Credit: Memoranda on difficult subjects ... / [Mark Noble Bower]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    licus, to anastomose with internal mammary and epigastric; tliis artery is always divided in the operation for hernia; (6) superficial pudics, two or more in number, jiiei cing cri- briform fascia, and going to integuments of penis and scrotum; (c) superficial circumfiexa tin, piercing crihrifonu fascia, passes up to- wards crest of ilium, supplying fascia and in- teguments; (d) pro/M/ida/eTnom, a large artei'y given off two inches below Poupart’s ligament, which passes downwards and backwards till it arrives at the space between adductor longus in front and adductor brevis behind, where it divides into its terminal branches, to anasto- mose with popliteal; it gives off the external dr- cumjiex, which divides into ascending branches to supply the gluteal muscles and anastomose with gluteal and circumtlexa ilii arteries, cir- cular to anastomose round the bone between quadratus femoris and adductor magnus with internal circumflex, descending branches to- wards the knee-joint; the internal circumjlex, wdiich passes deeply backwards between pecti- neus and psoas muscle, sends a branch to hip- joint, divides into numerous others for the supply of the muscles, and anastomoses w'ith obturator, sciatic, external circumflex, and perforating arteries; the other branches of the profunda are the three perforating arteries; the first passes above adductor brevis, the second passes through it, and the third passes be- neath it; they all perforate the adductor mag- nus, and anastomose with sciatic’, gluteal, ob- tuiator, and circumflex arteries above, and arte-