Anatom3DDorsal digital artery of foot
Arteria digitalis dorsalis pedis · Hřbetní prstová tepna nohy
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A small artery running along the top of a toe, one on each side.
What it does
Supplies the skin and joints on the top of the toe.
Keeping it well
A toe that turns dark or cold points to poor blood flow and needs a doctor promptly.
Related conditions
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Metabolic syndrome
- Morton's neuroma
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Venomous snakebite