Inferior vesical artery

Inferior vesicle artery
The arteries of the pelvis.
Same picture, showing the source of inferior vesical artery, the internal iliac artery, with other branches.
Details
Latin	arteria vesicalis inferior
Supplies	Prostate, seminal vesicle, urinary bladder, vas deferens
Source	Internal iliac artery
Vein	Vesical venous plexus
Identifiers
Gray's	p.615
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12156518
Anatomical terminology

The inferior vesical artery is an artery in the pelvis that supplies the lower part of the bladder.

Structure 1
- Sex 1.1
See also 2
References 3
Additional Images 4
External links 5

Structure

The inferior vesical artery is a branch (direct or indirect) of the anterior division of the internal iliac artery. It frequently arises in common with the middle rectal artery, and is distributed to the fundus of the bladder. In males, it also supplies the prostate and the seminal vesicles. The branches to the prostate communicate with the corresponding vessels of the opposite side.

Sex

Some texts consider it to be found only in males, and cite the vaginal artery as the homologous structure in females.^[1]

Other texts consider it to be present in both males and females.^[2] In these contexts, the inferior vesical artery in females is a small branch of a vaginal artery.

References

^ Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 289.
^ Anatomy photo:43:13-0301 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The Female Pelvis: Branches of Internal Iliac Artery"

Additional Images

Inferior vesical artery.Deep dissection. Lateral view.

External links

Inferior+vesical+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
pelvis at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (pelvicarteries)

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

List of arteries of torso – abdomen

Parietal

celiac

left gastric	esophageal branches

common hepatic	proper hepatic (cystic) right gastric gastroduodenal (right gastro-omental, superior pancreaticoduodenal, supraduodenal)

splenic	pancreatic branches (greater, dorsal) short gastric left gastro-omental

SMA

inferior pancreaticoduodenal
intestinal (jejunal, ileal, arcades, vasa recta)
ileocolic (colic, anterior cecal, posterior cecal, ileal branch, appendicular)
right colic
middle colic

IMA

Posterior

visceral

terminal/
common iliac

IIA

umbilical	superior vesical to ductus deferens ♂ medial umbilical ligament

obturator	anterior branch posterior branch

middle rectal	vaginal branch ♀

uterine ♀	arcuate vaginal of uterine ovarian of uterine tubal of uterine spiral

V/IV	vaginal ♀ inferior vesical ♂

inferior gluteal	accompanying of ischiadic nerve cruciate anastomosis

internal pudendal	inferior rectal perineal (posterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀) bulb of penis ♂/vestibule ♀ urethral deep artery of the penis ♂ (helicine)/clitoris ♀ dorsal of the penis ♂/clitoris ♀

Posterior

EIA

see

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Inferior vesical artery