Medical

dorsal artery of thumb

An obsolete term that formerly dignified either:
(1) An occasional dorsal digital branch of the radial artery that supplies the posterior portion of the metacarpal and proximal phalanges of the thumb; or
(2) A lateral terminal branch of the first dorsal metacarpal artery.

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