Recently, persistent median artery (PMA) has been recognized as a major arterial variant of the forearm in about 30% adults and it also shows a continuously increasing trend in the last two hundred years (Lucas et al., 2020). This may explain well the mystery why a "new meridian" was added to the older 11-meridian system over two thou-
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