Artery: Inferior vesical artery
The arteries of the pelvis.
Same picture, showing the source of inferior vesical artery, the internal iliac artery, with other branches.
Latin	arteria vesicalis inferior
Gray's	subject #155 615
Supplies	Prostate, seminal vesicle, urinary bladder, vas deferens
Source	Internal iliac artery
Vein	Vesical venous plexus

The inferior vesical artery is an artery in the pelvis that supplies the lower part of the bladder.

Contents 1 Structure 1.1 Sex 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Structure

The inferior vesical artery is a branch (direct or indirect) of the anterior division of the internal iliac artery. It frequently arises in common with the middle rectal artery, and is distributed to the fundus of the bladder. In males, it also supplies the prostate and the seminal vesicles. The branches to the prostate communicate with the corresponding vessels of the opposite side.

[edit] Sex

Some texts consider it to be found only in males, and cite the vaginal artery as the homologous structure in females.^[1]

Other texts consider it to be present in both males and females.^[2] In these contexts, the inferior vesical artery in females is a small branch of a vaginal artery.

[edit] See also

• Superior vesical artery

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Inferior+vesical+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
• pelvis at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (pelvicarteries)

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.

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