Anatom3DSet of plantar digital arteries proper
Arteriae digitales plantares propriae · Vlastní chodidlové prstové tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
Thin arteries along each side of the underside of the toes.
What it does
The main blood supply of the toes to their tips.
Keeping it well
Tight footwear, frostbite and poor circulation all threaten them; a toe that goes black needs urgent care.
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