Sural arteries

Sural arteries
The popliteal, posterior tibial, and peroneal arteries (sural arteries labeled at upper right)
Details
Source	Popliteal artery
Identifiers
Latin	arteriae surales
TA98	A12.2.16.037
TA2	4703
FMA	22570
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The sural arteries (inferior muscular arteries) are two large branches, lateral and medial, which are distributed to the gastrocnemius, soleus, and plantaris muscles. Sural means related to the calf.^[1] The term applies to any of four or five arteries arising from the popliteal artery, with distribution to the muscles and integument of the calf, and with anastomoses to the posterior tibial, medial and lateral inferior genicular arteries.

References

^ "SURAE | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 633 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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Arteries of the human leg

Inferior epigastric

cremasteric ♂ / round ligament ♀

Deep circumflex iliac

no major branches

Femoral

In femoral canal	superficial epigastric superficial circumflex iliac superficial external pudendal deep external pudendal anterior scrotal ♂
Descending genicular	saphenous branch articular branches
Deep femoral artery	medial circumflex femoral ascending descending superficial deep acetabular lateral circumflex femoral descending transverse ascending perforating Cruciate anastomosis Trochanteric anastomosis

Popliteal

Genicular	superior genicular (medial, lateral) middle genicular inferior genicular (medial, lateral)
Sural	no major branches
Anterior tibial	tibial recurrent posterior anterior anterior malleolar medial lateral dorsalis pedis: tarsal (medial, lateral)
Tibial-fibular (Tibial-peroneal) trunk	Posterior tibial circumflex fibular medial plantar lateral plantar fibular (peroneal)
Arches	arcuate dorsal metatarsal first dorsal metatarsal deep plantar dorsal digital arteries plantar arch plantar metatarsal common plantar digital proper plantar digital