Cardiovascular system
Obturator artery
Arteria obturatoria
- System
- Cardiovascular system
- Regions
- Trunk
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Anterior division of internal iliac artery
DescriptionUnreviewed
The obturator artery is a branch of the internal iliac artery that passes antero-inferiorly (forwards and downwards) on the lateral wall of the pelvis, to the upper part of the obturator foramen, and, escaping from the pelvic cavity through the obturator canal, it divides into both an anterior and a posterior branch.
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Names
- Latin
- Arteria obturatoria
- English
- Obturator artery
- French
- Artère obturatrice
- Spanish
- Arteria obturatriz
- Portuguese
- Artéria obturadora