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• n  branch of the brachial artery beginning below the elbow and extending down the forearm around the wrist and into the palm

• arteria radialis

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• Unclogging heart arteries through wrist becoming more common
  Opening clogged heart arteries via the radial artery in the wrist is becoming more common. The wrist route may have fewer complications than the traditional route through the femoral artery in the groin. Use of the procedure increased 13-fold in a six-year period.
  June 10, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• US Interventional Cardiologists Dramatically Increase Use Of Wrist Access
  In the last six years interventional cardiologists have dramatically increased their use of a new technique to send catheters to the heart for their procedures, though still only a small percentage of procedures are performed using the new approach. Instead of puncturing a hole in the femoral artery in the groin and snaking a catheter to theheart they are using the much-smaller radial artery in ...
  June 10, 2013 - Forbes