While assisting in a surgery to repair the middle portion of a torn semitendinosus muscle, the surgeon points to an artery supplying that portion of the muscle and asks you to name it. You reply:

A) deep artery of the thigh.
B) superior gluteal artery.
C) perforating artery.
D) obturator artery.
E) femoral artery.


Ans: C

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