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There are two arteries in a persons wrist, almost on either side of the wrist. One is the radial artery, and ulnar artery is the other one.

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What is the blood vessel in your wrist are called?

The wrist has several types of veins and arteries. The main veins in the wrist are dorsal digital veins, cephalic and basilic veins.


How deep are the arteries in your wrist Am I seeing the veins or the arteries when I look at my wrist How deep would I have to cut to hit an artery?

The Related Links section has a link to a website that has a diagram of the arm.The bluish blood vessels visible when you look at your wrist are veins. The arteries are deeper and not located particularly near the veins. Gray's Anatomy has a transverse section of the wrist; if you look at it you'll see you'd have to cut fairly deeply to hit one of the arteries, and the other is buried behind a ligament.


Where is a good place to take a pulse?

On the underside of your wrist, or on the carotid arteries of the neck.


The arteries that are also called distributing arteries are called?

muscular arteries


What are throbbing movement you feel when you touch your inner side of wrist?

The throbbing movement you feel when you touch the inner side of your wrist is likely your pulse, which is the rhythmic beating of your heart pumping blood through your arteries. This pulse can be easily felt in areas where arteries are close to the skin, such as the wrist.


What are arteries called?

Blocked arteries are called coronary arteries. Carotid artery disease is another named for blocked arteries. This should be determined by a doctor.


What are blocked arteries called?

Blocked arteries are called coronary arteries. Carotid artery disease is another named for blocked arteries. This should be determined by a doctor.


What is the pulse amplitude?

The rhythmical throbbing of arteries produced by the regular contractions of the heart, especially as palpated at the wrist or in the neck


Where are arterier?

There are arteries branching off your heart, one in your wrist, one near your trachea (in your neck), and one in your ankle.


What are the arteries supplying blood to the heart called?

coronary arteries


What are the thick walled arteries close to the heart called?

Muscular arteries


What blocked arteries can be bypassed by using veins in the leg?

They are called left internal mammary arteries (LIMAs).