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Henry Gray (1825–1861). Anatomy of the Human Body. 1918.

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FIG. 527– The radial and ulnar arteries. (See enlarged image)


FIG. 528– Ulnar and radial arteries. Deep view. (See enlarged image)
  (b) At the wrist the artery reaches the back of the carpus by passing between the radial collateral ligament of the wrist and the tendons of the Abductor pollicis longus and Extensor pollicis brevis. It then descends on the navicular and greater multangular bones, and before disappearing between the heads of the first Interosseus dorsalis is crossed by the tendon of the Extensor pollicis