page_title: Medial superior genicular artery
hierarchical_section_title: Medial superior genicular artery
context_page_description: The medial superior genicular, a branch of the popliteal artery, runs in front of the Semimembranosus and Semitendinosus, above the medial head of the Gastrocnemius, and passes beneath the tendon of the Adductor magnus.
  It divides into two branches, one of which supplies the vastus medialis, anastomosing with the highest genicular and medial inferior genicular arteries; the other ramifies close to the surface of the femur, supplying it and the knee-joint, and anastomosing with the lateral superior genicular artery.
  The medial superior genicular artery is frequently of small size, a condition, which is associated with an increase in the size of the highest genicular.
context_section_description: The medial superior genicular, a branch of the popliteal artery, runs in front of the Semimembranosus and Semitendinosus, above the medial head of the Gastrocnemius, and passes beneath the tendon of the Adductor magnus.
  It divides into two branches, one of which supplies the vastus medialis, anastomosing with the highest genicular and medial inferior genicular arteries; the other ramifies close to the surface of the femur, supplying it and the knee-joint, and anastomosing with the lateral superior genicular artery.
  The medial superior genicular artery is frequently of small size, a condition, which is associated with an increase in the size of the highest genicular.
caption: Circumpatellar anastomosis. (Medial superior genicular labeled at upper right, fourth from top.)
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