Uterine artery This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Uterine_artery".
The uterine artery is an artery in females that supplies blood to the uterus.
The uterine artery usually arises from the anterior division of the internal iliac artery. It travels to the uterus, crossing the ureter anteriorly.
It travels through the parametrium of the inferior broad ligament of the uterus.
It commonly anastomoses (connects with) the vaginal artery. The vaginal artery sometimes arises from the uterine artery, instead of arising directly from the internal iliac artery.
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)
inferior pancreaticoduodenal – intestinal (jejunal, ileal, arcades, vasa recta) – ileocolic (colic, anterior cecal, posterior cecal, ileal branch, appendicular) – right colic – middle colic
left colic – sigmoid – superior rectal – marginal
visceral: middle suprarenal – renal (inferior suprarenal, ureteral) – gonadal (testicular ♂ / ovarian ♀) parietal: inferior phrenic (superior suprarenal) – lumbar – median sacral terminal: common iliac (IIA, EIA)
umbilical (superior vesical, to ductus deferens) – middle rectal – obturator (anterior branch, posterior branch) – inferior gluteal (accompanying of ischiadic nerve, crucial anastomosis)
uterine ♀ (helicine, vaginal of uterine, ovarian of uterine, tubal of uterine) – vaginal ♀ / inferior vesical ♂
internal pudendal: inferior rectal – perineal (urethral) – posterior scrotal ♂ / labial ♀ – bulb of penis ♂ / vestibule ♀ – deep artery of the penis ♂ (helicine) / clitoris ♀ – dorsal of the penis ♂ / clitoris ♀
iliolumbar (lumbar, iliac) – lateral sacral – superior gluteal
inferior epigastric (cremasteric, round ligament) – deep circumflex iliac – femoral
