Vaginal artery

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Artery: Vaginal artery

Arteries of the female reproductive tract (posterior view): uterine artery, ovarian artery and vaginal arteries.

Vessels of the uterus and its appendages, rear view.
Latin	arteria vaginalis
Gray's	subject #155 616
Supplies	urinary bladder, ureter, vagina
Source	Internal iliac artery Uterine artery
Vein	vaginal venous plexus
Dorlands/Elsevier	a_61/12156498

The vaginal artery is an artery in females that supplies blood to the vagina.

1 Terminology
2 Structure
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

The vaginal artery is usually defined as a branch of the internal iliac artery.

Some sources say that the vaginal artery can arise form the internal iliac artery or the uterine artery.^[1] However, the phrase vaginal branches of uterine artery is the Terminologia Anatomica term for blood supply to the vagina coming from the uterine artery.

Some texts consider the inferior vesical artery to be found only in males, and that this structure in females is a vaginal artery.

It descends to the vagina, supplying its mucous membrane. It can send branches to the bulb of the vestibule, the fundus of the bladder, and the contiguous part of the rectum.

The vaginal artery is frequently represented by two or three branches.

Uterine artery

^ Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 290. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.

Vaginal+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
SUNY Labs 43:13-0206 - "The Female Pelvis: Branches of Internal Iliac Artery"

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List of arteries of torso - abdomen

AA:
Anterior

celiac	left gastric: esophageal branches splenic: pancreatic branches (greater, dorsal) – short gastric – left gastro-omental common hepatic: proper hepatic (cystic), right gastric, gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal, supraduodenal)
SMA	inferior pancreaticoduodenal – intestinal (jejunal, ileal, arcades, vasa recta) – ileocolic (colic, anterior cecal, posterior cecal, ileal branch, appendicular) – right colic – middle colic
IMA	left colic – sigmoid – superior rectal – marginal