Deep external pudendal artery

Artery: Deep external pudendal artery
The left femoral triangle. (Deep external pudendal vessels labeled at upper left.)
Scheme of the femoral artery.
Latin	arteria pudenda externa profunda
Gray's	subject #157 629
Source	femoral artery
Vein	external pudendal vein

The deep external pudendal artery (deep external pudic artery), more deeply seated than the superficial external pudendal artery, passes medialward 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 labium majus; its branches anastomose with the scrotal (or labial) branches of the perineal artery.

Additional Images

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  Schema of the arteries arising from the external iliac and femoral arteries.

See also

• Internal pudendal artery

External links

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

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.