Posterior ulnar recurrent artery
Arteria recurrens ulnaris posterior
- Related terms: Posterior branch; Ulnar recurrent artery: Posterior branch
Definition
The posterior ulnar recurrent artery (a. recurrentes ulnaris posterior) is much larger, than the anterior ulnar artery and arises from ulnar artery somewhat lower than the preceding.
It passes backward and medialward on the Flexor digitorum profundus, behind the Flexor digitorum sublimis, and ascends behind the medial epicondyle of the humerus. In the interval between this process and the olecranon, it lies beneath the Flexor carpi ulnaris, and ascending between the heads of that muscle, in relation with the ulnar nerve, it supplies the neighboring muscles and the elbow-joint, and anastomoses with the superior and inferior ulnar collateral and the interosseous recurrent arteries.
References
Text by Antoine Micheau, MD - Copyright IMAIOS
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
