Deep external pudendal artery

Deep external pudendal artery
The left femoral triangle. (Deep external pudendal vessels labeled at upper left.)
Scheme of the femoral artery.
Details
Source	femoral artery
Vein	external pudendal vein
Identifiers
Latin	arteria pudenda externa profunda
TA	A12.2.16.014
FMA	20739
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The deep external pudendal artery (deep external pudic artery), is one of the pudendal arteries that is more deeply seated than the superficial external pudendal artery, passes medially across the pectineus and the adductor longus muscles; it is covered by the fascia lata, which it pierces at the medial side of the thigh, and is distributed, in the male, to the integument of the scrotum and perineum, in the female to the labia majora; its branches anastomose with the scrotal (or labial) branches of the perineal artery.

Additional Images

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

antthigh at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (femoralart)

In femoral canal	superficial epigastric superficial circumflex iliac superficial external pudendal deep external pudendal (anterior scrotal ♂

Descending genicular	saphenous branch articular branches

Profunda femoris	medial circumflex femoral ascending descending superficial deep acetabular lateral circumflex femoral descending transverse ascending perforating Cruciate anastomosis Trochanteric anastomosis

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

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