Frequently Traveled Roads

Frequently Traveled Roads

Jennifer Beach

HS130-03

Unit 4 Assignment

Kaplan University

March 20, 2014

All hands to stations! There’s been a sighting of bacteria reported and we need to move out immediately to verify. Launch site today is the femoral vein. Are we ready to move out? Yes sir!

We’re traveling through the femoral vein, which is in close proximity of the femoral artery (2014, Healthline Body Maps). This is one of the largest in the venal system. The femoral vein receives from several branches including: popliteal, the profunda femoris, and the great sapheneous veins (2014, Healthline Body Maps). The popliteal is located behind the knee and drains the fibular vein before reaching the knee joint and turns into the femoral vein when leaving the adductor (2013, Wikipedia). The profunda femoris vein, deep femoral vein, is a large deep vein in the thigh that drains into the femoral vein. The great sapheneous vein is the longest vein in the body and is deep in the thigh just below the inguinal ligament where it joins the femoral vein.

Make sure everyone is strapped in. We’ll be moving quickly as the blood pumps through the vein rapidly. We’re seeing the connection of the medial femoral vein and the lateral circumflex. The medial femoral vein is an extension of the femoral vein and is identified as one part of the femoral triangle. It is located between the inguinal ligament, the satorius muscle and the abductor longus (2014, Healthline Body Maps). The lateral femoral circumflex vein comes from the ascending, transverse, and descending branches and joins the deep femoral artery. This forms an area known as the femoral triangle. This is nothing like the Bermuda Triangle- nothing disappears here. The femoral vein stops at the inguinal ligament. The inguinal ligament is at the anterior, diagonal border between the trunk and the thigh. At this point, the femoral vein becomes the external iliac vein. The external iliac vein arises from the poplitear vein...