anterior interosseous artery

It also anastomoses with the anterior interosseous artery and the posterior interosseous artery.

The anterior interosseous artery (volar interosseous artery) is an artery in the forearm.

Before the tendon enters its synovial sheath arteries from the anterior interosseous artery or its muscular branches enters the tendon.

This anastomosis is joined by a branch from the anterior interosseous artery above, and by recurrent branches from the deep palmar arch below, thus forming a palmar carpal network which supplies the articulations of the wrist and carpus.

The anterior interosseous artery gives off a slender branch, the arteria mediana, which accompanies the median nerve, and gives offsets to its substance; this artery is sometimes much enlarged, and runs with the nerve into the palm of the hand.

The anterior interosseous nerve (a branch of the median nerve) and the anterior interosseous artery and vein pass downward on the front of the interosseous membrane between the flexor pollicis longus and flexor digitorum profundus.

The anterior interosseous branch courses with the anterior interosseous artery and innervates all the muscles of the deep group of the anterior compartment of the forearm except the medial (ulnar) half of flexor digitorum profundus and flexor carpi ulnaris muscle.