Anatom3DSecond common palmar digital artery
Arteria digitalis palmaris communis secunda · Druhá společná dlaňová prstová tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The palm artery from the superficial arch that runs toward the web between the index and middle fingers.
What it does
Splits into proper digital arteries for the facing sides of the index and middle fingers.
Keeping it well
Deep palm cuts here can divide it with the digital nerve; numbness beyond a cut needs a hand surgeon.
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)