Essays on practical medicine and surgery (Volume 2) . row or depression, which isbounded internally by the adductor mus-cles, and externally by the vastus inter-nus, until it reaches the junction of themiddle with the inferior third of the then engages itself in a strong aponeu-rotic sheath formed by the tendons of theadductor longus and adductor magnus,which it traverses to reach the posteriorface of the member, when it continues todescend under the name of popliteal ar-tery. Thus the femoral artery, after re-posing above upon the horizontal branchof the pubis, and in front of the h
Essays on practical medicine and surgery (Volume 2) . row or depression, which isbounded internally by the adductor mus-cles, and externally by the vastus inter-nus, until it reaches the junction of themiddle with the inferior third of the then engages itself in a strong aponeu-rotic sheath formed by the tendons of theadductor longus and adductor magnus,which it traverses to reach the posteriorface of the member, when it continues todescend under the name of popliteal ar-tery. Thus the femoral artery, after re-posing above upon the horizontal branchof the pubis, and in front of the head ofthe femur, from which it is only separatedby the psoas muBcle, twines around the 374 ARTERIES. {Special Anat.) internal face of the bone in a spiral direc-tion, until it passes from the anterior tothe posterior face of the limb. In the up-per part of the thigh, it is only coveredby the skin, superficial fascia, a stratumof lymphatic glands, and by the fascialata. Here, therefore, it can be most con-veniently exposed when it becomes ne-Fig. a, Bifurcation of Common Macs, o, Middle Sacral, c, ExternalIliac d, Circumflexus Ilii. t. Epigastric. /. Superficial Puden-dal, g, Division of Common Femoral. A, Superficial , Externa] Circumflex, fc. Superficial Epigastric. /, , Femoral. 71, Internal Circumflex, o, Dorsalis Penis, -p. An-astomoticus Magnus. cessary to include it in a ligature. In themiddle third of the thigh it is deeper seat-ed, because the sartorious muscle, in wind-ing down the anterior internal part of themember, advances in front and overlapsthe artery as low as the point at which itperforates the tendons of the , the femoral artery is in rela-tion, above, with the pectineus muscle,and lower down, with the adductor it enters the groin, the femoralvein is also on the pubic aspect of the ar-tery, but as it descends, the vein gradu-ally gets upon its posterior face. Exter-nally, it is in relation, at first wi
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