Anatom3DMedial proper palmar digital artery of ring finger
Arteria digitalis palmaris propria medialis digiti anularis · Vnitřní vlastní dlaňová tepna prsteníku
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A thin artery along the palm side of the ring finger, on its little-finger side.
What it does
One of the two arteries feeding the ring finger to its tip.
Keeping it well
Can be injured by cuts, crush or ring avulsion; a pale, cold fingertip after injury needs urgent care.
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)