Nutrient aery supplying the bone enters from which end?
Nutrient aery: it enters the shaft through nutrient foramen run obliquely through the cotex and divides into ascending and descending branches in medullary cavity The nutrient aery supplies medullary cavity inner 2/3 of coex and metaphysis Each branch divide into a number of small parllel channels which terminate in the adult metaphysis by anastomosing with epiphysial metaphysial and periosteal aeries Description Ref BD CHAURASIA S Handbook of General Anatomy Fouh edition Pg no 43
Away from the growing end
Towards the growing end
No fixed entry point
Metaphyseal end
General anatomy