 to demonstrate the femoral artery and its important branches in the thigh. So we have lifted up this artery, this is the femoral artery here and the medial to that is the femoral vein. The femoral artery runs through the center of the femoral triangle and then it goes through the apex of the femoral triangle which is located here and then it enters the rectal canal. Let's take a look at the branches that we can see in this dissection. This is the first branch we can picked up here. This is the superficial circumflex iliac artery. This artery runs upwards and laterally parallel to the iliac crest. That's why it's called superficial circumflex iliac. Then we can see this branch here. This is the superficial epigastric which runs across abdominal wall like this and then there is a third branch which goes to the genitalia that is the external pudendal. We can see part of it here and it is accompanied by the corresponding veins which we have cut. The veins drain into the femoral vein. Apart from this we have a very important branch and we can see that branch coming out here which is almost as large as the main femoral artery itself. Now we come to the largest and the most important branch of the femoral artery. This artery that we have picked up here and we can see the other end of it here. This is the course of the artery. This is the profunda femoris artery and we can trace it all the way down here. So this is the profunda femoris starting from here, here and here and this is accompanied by the profunda femoris vein. Profunda means deep. This is the largest branch of the femoral artery. The profunda femoris artery in the vein they run medially and they go deep between the attachments of the vastus medialis and the adductor magnus onto the linear aspirin. So therefore it runs just on the bed of the attachment of the adductor magnus to the linear aspirin. And this profunda femoris we cannot see it in this dissection gives off the medial and the lateral circumflex femoral arteries which encircles the femur and supplies to the hip joint and it also participates in the crucial anastomosis and thereafter the profunda femoris terminates by giving four perforators and because I told you the profunda femoris is running on the bed provided by the adductor magnus which is attached to the linear aspirin. So the perforators run from medial to lateral along the posterior aspect of the femur. So the first perforator goes like this, the second perforator goes like this, the third and the fourth perforator is the termination of the profunda which terminates. So that is how the profunda femoris terminates. Because the posterior aspect of the nithi does not have any separate arterial supply it is these perforators which supply the blood to the posterior aspect. The first perforator which goes like this participates in what is known as a cruciate anastomosis along with the medial and the lateral circumflex femoral and a branch from the inferior gluteal. This is a very important branch of the femoral artery namely the profunda femoris. Apart from that femoral artery is also giving we can see numerous muscular branches and we can see some of the muscular branches here. We can see a muscular branch, a big muscular branch is coming to the quadriceps muscle. This one, this one. Apart from that the femoral artery also gives a genicular branch. This is the genicular branch descending genicular branch of the femoral artery which runs on the medial side down like this and it participates in the genicular anastomosis with the perforatorial artery. So that brings me to the termination of the femoral artery where exactly it becomes known as the femoral artery. So for that let's again come back to the femoral artery. Femoral artery is continuing here. At this point this is the location of the beginning of the adductor canal. We have separated it out. So posteriorly we can see the adductor longus is here. So it runs on the surface of the adductor longus under cover of this fascia here which is called the sub sartorial fascia and then it continues down. While my finger is tracing this, I would like to notice this tendinous structure here which I have lifted up here. This tendinous structure. This is the adductor tendon. And if we trace this adductor tendon further down we find it terminates on to the adductor tubercle here. Between the adductor tendon and the rest of the adductor magnus which we can see here which is inserted onto the linea aspera there is an opening and that opening is known as the adductor hiatus. So we will trace the femoral artery into the adductor hiatus. My finger is going with the femoral vessels. Femoral artery and femoral vein and it is going inside and as it goes it comes out through the adductor hiatus. This is the adductor hiatus. And when it crosses the adductor hiatus the femoral artery becomes known as the popular artery. The important clinical point to be remembered is that the femoral artery or the beginning of the popular artery whichever way you want to put it is liable to entrapment at the adductor hiatus. This is one of the three important sites of popular artery entrapment namely the adductor hiatus. So this is the termination of the femoral artery. Femoral artery is an important site for cannulation for angiograms and how do we locate the position of the femoral artery? We take the meeting mineral point from the anterior superior leg spine to the pubic symphysis which is here not the pubic tubercle but the pubic symphysis and we take the midpoint of that. And from the midpoint we drop a line one inch below and we will feel the femoral artery against the pubic bone. And from there we can cannulate it for angiographic procedures and it is being used for coronary angiogram apart from other angiograms. And while we are feeling the femoral artery position we know the femoral vein is just located immediately to that. So we can cannulate the femoral vein also to the same root. So this is also another important clinical correlation pertaining to the femoral artery and the femoral vein. Thank you very much for watching. If you have any questions or comments please put them in the comment section below. Have a nice day.