Practical anatomy.

  • Christopher Heath
Date:
1870
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Credit: Practical anatomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE AXILLARY ARTERY. 20 ■winds round the lower border of the subscapularis mus- cle, and. after giving an infraseapular branch, disappears Fig. 3. The Axillary Artert axd its Branches (drawn by G. E 1. Acromio-thoracic artery. 2. Costo-coracoid membrane with cut axillary vein. 3. Superior thoracic and alar thoracic arteries. 4. Cephalic vein. 5. Lnng thoracic artery. 6. Axillary artery. 7. Pectoralis minor (cut). S. Musculocutaneous nerve. 9. Pectoralis major (cut). 10. Median nerve. Muscles beiDg removed the Pectoral L. Pearse). 11. Serratus magnus. 12. Posterior circumflex artery. 13. Posterior thoracic nerve. 14. Pectoralis major [insertion]. 15. Subscapular artery. 16. Ulnar nerve. 17. Dor>alis scapulae artery. IS. Internal cutaneous nerve. 19. Circumflex nerve (drawn down). 20. .Serve of Wri>berg joined by inter- costo-humeral nerve. through a triangular interval, bounded (as seen from the front) by the long head of the triceps, the teres major, and the subscapularis. [It grooves the anterior bonier of the scapula.] 3*