Anatom3DThird common palmar digital artery
Arteria digitalis palmaris communis tertia · Třetí společná dlaňová prstová tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The palm artery from the superficial arch that runs toward the web between the middle and ring fingers.
What it does
Splits into proper digital arteries for the facing sides of the middle and ring fingers.
Keeping it well
Deep palm cuts can divide it; bleeding from the palm is controlled by firm pressure until repair.
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)