Anatom3DMedial proper palmar digital artery of index finger
Arteria digitalis palmaris propria medialis indicis · Vnitřní vlastní dlaňová tepna ukazováku
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A thin artery along the palm side of the index finger, on its middle-finger side.
What it does
One of the two arteries feeding the index finger to its tip, next to the digital nerve.
Keeping it well
Finger cuts that bleed and numb one side suggest this artery and nerve are cut; both can be repaired under a microscope.
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)