Nutrient artery supplying the bone enters from which end
Correct Answer: Away from the growing end
Description: Nutrient artery: it enters the shaft through nutrient foramen run obliquely through the cortex and divides into ascending and descending branches in the medullary cavity
The nutrient artery supplies medullary cavity, inner 2/3 of cortex and metaphysics
Each branch divide into a number of small parallel channels which terminate in the adult metaphysis by anastomosing with epiphysial, metaphysical and periosteal arteries
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