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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  It's kind of semantics, but I think you're just confusing arteries w/ arterioles and capillaries. It goes:
*Aorta-->large artery-->medium artery-->small artery-->arteriole-->capillary (where arterial / venous blood exchanges)-->venule-->vein
The nail bed would have a blood supply, yes, but not an actual artery. |
I beg to differ. If you want to be technical: "The dorsal common digital arteries, on reaching the skin that ensheathes the digits, divide into the axial and abaxial dorsal proper digital arteries II, III, and IV. These go to the dorsal parts of the contiguous sides of adjacent digits and, as branched cutaneous vessels,
extend to the claws."
--Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, fourth Edition
It's a matter of semantics whether you want to consider an arteriole an artery:
ar·te·ri·ole [ahr-teer-ee-ohl]
noun Anatomy.
any of the smallest branches of an artery, terminating in capillaries.