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Persistent median artery (PMA) has been recognized as a major arterial variant of the forearm in about 30% adults and it also shows a continuously increasing trend in the last… Click to show full abstract
Persistent median artery (PMA) has been recognized as a major arterial variant of the forearm in about 30% adults and it also shows a continuously increasing trend in the last two hundred years. This may explain well the mystery why a "new meridian" was added to the older 11-meridian system over two thousand years ago in Chinese medicine. The 12th meridian, Hand Jue Yin Meridian, happens to run along the same pathway as PMA.
Keywords:
medicine;
persistent median;
may explain;
median artery;
chinese medicine
Journal Title: Journal of Anatomy
Year Published: 2021
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Journal Title: Journal of Anatomy
Year Published: 2021
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