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lateral circumflex femoral artery
Origin: profunda femoris artery
Distribution:
1) hip joint
2) muscles of thigh
Anastomoses:
1) medial circumflex femoral artery
2) inferior gluteal artery
3) superior gluteal artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: lateral circumflex femoral artery
ORIGIN: profunda femoris artery (deep artery of thigh)
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium