Anatom3DLateral proper palmar digital artery of middle finger
Arteria digitalis palmaris propria lateralis digiti medii · Zevní vlastní dlaňová tepna prostředníku
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A thin artery along the palm side of the middle finger, on its index-finger side.
What it does
One of the two arteries feeding the middle finger to its tip, running beside the digital nerve.
Keeping it well
A cut on the side of the finger that bleeds briskly and leaves the side numb has likely hit this artery and nerve.
Related conditions
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Ganglion cyst
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)