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{{Infobox Artery |
  Name        = {{PAGENAME}} |
  Latin       = arteriae digitales palmares propriae |
  GraySubject = 152 |
  GrayPage    = 598 |
  Image       = Gray1237_svg.png |
  Caption     = Palm of left hand, showing position of skin creases and bones, and surface markings for the volar arches. (Proper palmar digital arteries visible but not labeled.) |
  Image2      = |
  Caption2    = |
  BranchFrom  = [[common palmar digital arteries]] |
  BranchTo    =  |
  Vein        = [[palmar digital veins]] |
  Supplies    = [[finger]]s|
  MeshName    = |
  MeshNumber  = |
  DorlandsPre = a_61 |
  DorlandsSuf = 12154137  |
}}

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The '''proper palmar digital arteries''' (or '''volar''') travel along the sides of the [[phalanges]], just posterior to the corresponding digital nerve.  

The proper palmar digital artery for the medial side of the [[little finger]] arises directly from the [[ulnar artery]] deep to the [[palmaris brevis]] muscle, but the rest arise from the [[common palmar digital arteries]].  

They anastomose freely in the subcutaneous tissue of the finger tips and by smaller branches near the [[interphalangeal joint]]s. 

Each gives off a couple of dorsal branches which anastomose with the [[dorsal digital arteries]], and supply the soft parts on the back of the second and third [[phalanges]], including the matrix of the [[fingernail]]. 

==See also==
* [[Superficial palmar arch]]
* [[Proper palmar digital nerves of median nerve]]

==External links==
* {{eMedicineDictionary|proper+palmar+digital+arteries}}

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