- See:
- Arterial Development :
- Discussion:
- placental circulation has been developed & umbilical arteries have attained significant size when the lower limb bud arises;
- where umbilical artery lies near the root of the limb bud, it gives off small branch, the Ischiadic artery, that serves for a time as
axial artery of the limb
Inferior Gluteal Artery (Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation)