posterior tibial artery

The posterior tibial artery of the lower limb carries blood to the posterior compartment of the leg and plantar surface of the foot, from the popliteal artery. It is accompanied by a deep vein, the posterior tibial vein, along its course. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the posterior tibial artery is

The posterior tibial artery of the lower limb carries blood to the posterior compartment of the leg and plantar surface of the foot, from the popliteal artery. It is accompanied by a deep vein, the posterior tibial vein, along its course. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the posterior tibial artery is

It sits in the lower limb, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the posterior tibial artery connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb, limb and organism subdivision, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the posterior tibial 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 tibialis posterior. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001538, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb, limb, organism subdivision and vasculature.
• A kind of: artery and blood vessel.
• contains: medial plantar artery and plantar metatarsal artery.

Questions

Where is the posterior tibial artery?

It sits in the lower limb, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the posterior tibial artery connect to?

Part of: hindlimb, limb, organism subdivision and vasculature.

Is the posterior tibial artery the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.