20.10b Inferior Epigastric Artery & Supreme Intercostal Artery
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What does the inferior epigastric artery supply?
The inferior abdominal wall.
Where does the inferior epigastric artery originate?
From the external iliac artery.
What does it mean that the inferior epigastric artery anastomoses with the superior epigastric artery?
They connect to provide collateral blood flow to the abdominal wall.
What is the supreme intercostal artery?
A branch of the costocervical trunk.
What does the supreme intercostal artery give rise to?
The first and second posterior intercostal arteries.
What do posterior intercostal arteries supply?
The intercostal spaces.
Why are these arteries important?
They supply blood to the thoracic and abdominal walls.
