Plantar metatarsal artery at a glance
- What it is
- Branches of the plantar arch running between the metatarsals.
- Location
- Four plantar metatarsal arteries arise from the plantar arch and divide into plantar digital arteries for adjacent toes.
- Function
- They supply the toes and interosseous muscles.
- Body system
- Cardiovascular · single, midline structure
- FMA ID
- FMA43956 (Foundational Model of Anatomy)
Structures next to the plantar metatarsal artery
The nearest named structures in the 3D model, measured from the centre of each part:
- Abductor hallucis · muscular
- Medial plantar artery · cardiovascular
- Medial head of flexor hallucis brevis · muscular
- Medial cuneiform bone · skeletal
- Lateral head of flexor hallucis brevis · muscular
- Navicular bone of foot · skeletal
- First metatarsal bone · skeletal
- Dorsalis pedis artery · cardiovascular
- Plantar venous arch of foot · cardiovascular
- Plantar arch · cardiovascular
References
- Foundational Model of Anatomy: Plantar metatarsal artery (FMA43956). EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service.
- OpenStax. Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §20.1 Structure and Function of Blood Vessels. Rice University, 2022.
- Mitsuhashi N. et al. (2009). BodyParts3D: 3D structure database for anatomical concepts. Nucleic Acids Research 37, D782–D785. Data © The Database Center for Life Science, CC BY 4.0.
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