Anatomical description of the arteries of the human body : illustrated by several coloured engravings, selected and reduced from the Icones of Haller ; exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection.

  • Albrecht von Haller
Date:
1813
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Credit: Anatomical description of the arteries of the human body : illustrated by several coloured engravings, selected and reduced from the Icones of Haller ; exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inosculating with the epigastric, intercostal, and lumbar arteries ; sometimes sent from the musculo-phrenic ; and if that be smaller, this supplies it with many branches. B. The Superior intercostal artery— rises more externally than the verteh I, from the upper and posterior surface of the trunk ; then ascends with it to the hollow that is formed by the anterior scalenus, the surface of the first rib, and bodies of the vertebrae. It is there suddenly re- flected ; and, proceeding to the roots of the first and second ribs within the thorax, gives, Ascending branches, irregular in number and size, to the scaleni, the longus colli, and the nerves. Branches to the intercostal muscles of the first and se- cond interstices, which run along the margins of the ribs, forming circular inosculations with the higher,thoracic branch and the branches of the internal mammary. Numerous Oesophageal Branches— Branches sent through the openings for the nerves to the hollow of the spine, and there distributed both to the involucra and the medulla. Branches passing over the third rib, and inosculating with twi^s of the Jirst inferior intercostal. Deep branches, passing through the intercostal spaces to the deep muscles of the back and neck. C. The vertebral artery—larger than the former, rises from the superior side of the subclavian; and, ascending a little backwards, covered by the ganglions of the intercostal and the cellular membrane, reaches the perforations of the
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