The dissector's manual of practical and surgical anatomy / By Erasmus Wilson.

  • Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884.
Date:
1856
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Credit: The dissector's manual of practical and surgical anatomy / By Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The sigmoid artery passes obliquely outwards behind the peri- toneum, and divides into branches which form arches, and are distributed to the sigmoid flexure of the colon. The superior Fig. 21. TnK DlSTRTBTTTlOX AND BrAXCHES OF THE INFERIOR MeSEKTERIC ArTERT. 1,1. The siijHM-ior mesenterie artery, with its branches and the small intestines turned over to the riirht side. 2. Tlie oivoum and apjXMidix ca^M. 3. The ascendincj colon. 4. The transverse colon raised upwards. 5. The descending colon, tj. Its sigmoid flexure. 7. The rectum. 8. The aorta. 9. The infe- rior mesenteric artery. 10. The colica sinistra, inosculating with 11, the colica media, a branch of the su]ierior mei^enterie artery. 12, 12. Sigmoid branches. LS. The siijierior hemorrhoidal artery. 14. The pancreas. 15. The descend- ing portion of the duodenum. branch inosculates with the colica sinistra, the inferior with the superior hemorrhoidal artery. Tlie superior Jiemorrhoidal artery is the continuation of the inferior mesenteric. It crosses the ureter and common iliac ar-