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  2. Anatomical terms of location - Wikipedia

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    These terms describe location as palmar and plantar; For example, volar pads are those on the underside of hands or fingers; the plantar surface describes the sole of the heel, foot or toes. Similarly, in the forearm, for clarity, the sides are named after the bones.

  3. Ulnar artery - Wikipedia

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    Forearm: Anterior ulnar recurrent artery, Posterior ulnar recurrent artery, Common interosseous is very short, around 1 cm, and gives rise to the anterior, posterior, and recurrent interosseous arteries and close to the wrist it gives off the palmar carpal branch which is the ulnar contribution to the palmar carpal arch and it also gives a dorsal carpal branch which is the ulnar contribution ...

  4. Lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm - Wikipedia

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    The volar branch (ramus volaris; anterior branch) descends along the radial border of the forearm to the wrist, and supplies the skin over the lateral half of its volar surface. At the wrist-joint it is placed in front of the radial artery, and some filaments, piercing the deep fascia, accompany that vessel to the dorsal surface of the carpus.

  5. Forearm - Wikipedia

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    The forearm is the region of the upper limb between the elbow and the wrist. [1] The term forearm is used in anatomy to distinguish it from the arm, a word which is used to describe the entire appendage of the upper limb, but which in anatomy, technically, means only the region of the upper arm, whereas the lower "arm" is called the forearm.

  6. Medial cutaneous nerve of forearm - Wikipedia

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    The volar branch (ramus volaris; anterior branch), the larger, passes usually in front of, but occasionally behind, the vena mediana cubiti (median basilic vein).. It then descends on the front of the ulnar side of the forearm, distributing filaments to the skin as far as the wrist, and communicating with the palmar cutaneous branch of the ulnar nerve.

  7. Radial artery - Wikipedia

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    The radial artery arises from the bifurcation of the brachial artery in the antecubital fossa.It runs distally on the anterior part of the forearm. There, it serves as a landmark for the division between the anterior and posterior compartments of the forearm, with the posterior compartment beginning just lateral to the artery.

  8. Volar - Wikipedia

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    Volar Airlines, later branded as LTE, based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Project VOLAR, or Project Volunteer Army, a US Army post-Vietnam War program; Volar, an anatomical term referring to the palm side of the hand. Volar interosseous nerve or anterior interosseous nerve, a branch of the median nerve connecting to certain forearm muscles

  9. Anterior interosseous artery - Wikipedia

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    It passes down the forearm on the palmar surface of the interosseous membrane. [2]It is accompanied by the palmar interosseous branch of the median nerve, and overlapped by the contiguous margins of the flexor digitorum profundus and flexor pollicis longus muscles, giving off in this situation muscular branches, and the nutrient arteries of the radius and ulna.