Right colic artery 4484805 188708722 2008-02-03T01:15:17Z 201.37.83.168 {{Infobox Artery | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Latin = arteria colica dextra | GraySubject = 154 | GrayPage = 609 | Image = Gray534.png | Caption = The [[superior mesenteric artery]] and its branches. (Right colic visible at center.) | Image2 = | Caption2 = | BranchFrom = [[superior mesenteric artery]] | BranchTo = | Vein = [[right colic vein]] | Supplies = [[ascending colon]] | MeshName = | MeshNumber = | DorlandsPre = a_61 | DorlandsSuf = 12153948 | }} The '''Right Colic Artery''' arises from about the middle of the concavity of the [[superior mesenteric artery]], or from a stem common to it and the [[ileocolic]]. It passes to the right behind the [[peritoneum]], and in front of the right [[internal spermatic]] or [[ovarian vessels]], the right [[ureter]] and the [[Psoas major]], toward the middle of the [[ascending colon]]; sometimes the vessel lies at a higher level, and crosses the descending part of the [[duodenum]] and the lower end of the right [[kidney]]. At the [[Colon (anatomy)|colon]] it divides into a descending branch, which anastomoses with the ileocolic, and an ascending branch, which anastomoses with the [[middle colic]]. These branches form arches, from the convexity of which vessels are distributed to the [[ascending colon]]. ==External links== * {{SUNYAnatomyFigs|39|01|04}} - "Branches of the superior mesenteric artery." * {{SUNYAnatomyLabs|39|03|01|02}} - "Intestines and Pancreas: Branches of Superior Mesenteric Artery" * {{SUNYAnatomyImage|8|5|80}} * {{NormanAnatomy|largeintestine}} * {{NormanAnatomy|sup&infmesentericart}} {{Gray's}} {{circulatory-stub}} {{Arteries of thorax and abdomen}} [[pt:Artéria cólica direita]]