General Anatomy Important Miscellaneous Question And Answers

Radicular Artery
Answer:

• Radicular arteries reach the spinal cord along the roots of spinal nerves

Radicular Artery Origin:

• These arteries arise from spinal branches of the vertebral, ascending cervical, deep cervical, intercostals, lumbar & sacral arteries

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Radicular Artery Types:

• Many of the radicular branches are small & end by supplying tire nerve roots
• A few of them, which are large, contribute blood to the spinal arteries

Radicular Artery Arteria radicularis magna:

• It is one of the large anterior radicular branch
• It supplies blood to as much as the lower two-third of the spinal cord

Radicular Artery Significance:

• Radicular arteries make important contribution to reinforce the longitudinal trunks

Radicular Artery Fate:

• As fetal growth proceeds most of the radicular arteries disappear, those that remain form anastomoses with the anterior & posterior spinal arteries & are commonly known as BOOSTER or FEEDER vessels