Tags: Anatomical Structure, Artery.

The superficial palmar branch of the radial 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 thenar muscles which it supplies and sometimes anastomoses with the terminal portion of the ulnar artery completing the superficial palmar arch.

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