Plantar Digital Veins

The plantar digital veins arise from plexuses on the plantar surfaces of the digits, and, after sending intercapitular veins to join the dorsal digital veins, unite to form four metatarsal veins.

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.


Veins of lower limbs (TA A12.3.11, GA 7.669)
thigh femoral · profunda femoris · popliteal
deep leg fibular · anterior tibial · posterior tibial
superficial leg small saphenous · great saphenous (external pudendal, superficial of penis ♂/clitoris ♀)
foot dorsal arch · dorsal metatarsal · dorsal digital · plantar arch · plantar metatarsal · common digital · plantar digital

M: VAS

anat (a:h/u/t/a/l,v:h/u/t/a/l)/phys/devp/cell/prot

noco/syva/cong/lyvd/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (C2s+n/3/4/5/7/8/9)

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