dorsalis pedis artery in dogs

A blood vessel of the lower limb that carries oxygenated blood to the dorsal surface of the foot. It arises at the anterior aspect of the ankle joint and is a continuation of the anterior tibial artery. It terminates at the proximal part of the first intermetatarsal space, where it divides into two branches, the first dorsal metatarsal artery and the deep plantar artery. Along its course, it is accompanied by a deep vein, the dorsalis pedis vein. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the dorsalis pedis artery is

A blood vessel of the lower limb that carries oxygenated blood to the dorsal surface of the foot. It arises at the anterior aspect of the ankle joint and is a continuation of the anterior tibial artery. It terminates at the proximal part of the first intermetatarsal space, where it divides into two branches, the first dorsal metatarsal artery and the deep plantar artery. Along its course, it is accompanied by a deep vein, the dorsalis pedis vein. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the dorsalis pedis artery is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the dorsalis pedis artery connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the dorsalis pedis artery. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as arteria dorsalis pedis and dorsal artery of foot. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001539, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the dorsalis pedis artery?

It sits in the hindlimb, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the dorsalis pedis artery connect to?

Part of: hindlimb.

Is the dorsalis pedis artery the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.