Where exactly is that main artery that if you cut it in your wrist you will/could bleed to death
And no I'm not trying to kill myself I promise! =P We're studdying anatomy, I've always been curious...
Answer:Below are two arteries located in the wrist. Search Gray's Anatomy at the website in the source below because it has everything you ever wanted to know.
The volar carpal branch (ramus carpeus volaris; anterior radial carpal artery) is a small vessel which arises near the lower border of the Pronator quadratus, and, running across the front of the carpus, anastomoses with the volar carpal branch of the ulnar artery. This anastomosis is joined by a branch from the volar interosseous above, and by recurrent branches from the deep volar arch below, thus forming a volar carpal net-work which supplies the articulations of the wrist and carpus.
The superficial volar branch (ramus volaris superficialis; superficialis vol艙 artery) arises from the radial artery, just where this vessel is about to wind around the lateral side of the wrist. Running forward, it passes through, occasionally over, the muscles of the ball of the thumb, which it supplies, and sometimes anastomoses with the terminal portion of the ulnar artery, completing the superficial volar arch. This vessel varies considerably in size: usually it is very small, and ends in the muscles of the thumb; sometimes it is as large as the continuation of the radial
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