A probationary essay on the obturatrix artery, its varieties and surgical relations : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary fellows / by Henry B. Macfarlane.

  • Macfarlane, Henry Butter, 1809?-1853.
Date:
1829
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    of the thigh ; while the second and larger of the two descends between the adductor brevis and lon- gus, and is ultimately distributed to nearly the same parts as the posterior, sending some twigs farther down the inside of the thigh. While in the pelvis this artery sends off some small branches to the urinary bladder, side of the pelvis, psoas muscle, and lymphatic glands, anasto- mosing with the arteries of the bladder and exter- nal iliac. Shortly before passing into the thigh it sends twigs upwards to inosculate with the epigas- tric, and downwards and inwards to the obtura- torius internus and levator ani muscles, neck of the bladdera, and cellular membrane behind the pubes, where they meet with corresponding arteries from the opposite side. One very constant and dis- tinct branch is prolonged behind the symphysis pubis, ramifying upon the periosteum, and inosculating a Haller Icon. Anatom. Fasc. iv. p. 32., and Lieutaud, Essais Anatomiques, p. 435-, describe the obturatrix as giving pff the dorsal artery of the penis; and Haller mentions that Columbus has stated this distribution as constant. This variety occurred also in the dis- section of a male subject in Dr Knox’s rooms for Practical Anatomy, two winters ago ; and was demonstrated to the class. The branch from the obturatrix quitted that artery about half an inch after its origin from the hypogastric, gained the side of the bladder, close to the superior margin of the prostate gland, and, making its way under- neath the arch of the pubes, became the dorsal artery of the penis of the right side ; no such vessel existed on the left side.