Volume 1

The surgical anatomy of the arteries of the human body / [Robert Harrison].

  • Harrison, Robert, 1796-1858.
Date:
1824-1825
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Credit: The surgical anatomy of the arteries of the human body / [Robert Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other descending ; the ascending soon terminate in the vessels of the Neck and superior extremities, the descending passes backwards, and then takes the usual course along the vertebral column. ARTERIA CORONARIA DEXTRA VEL ANTERIOR. Arises immediately above the floating edge of one of the semilunar valves, and appears between the Pulmonary Artery and the right Auricle ; it runs in a very tortuous manner towards the right side, between the right Auricle and Ventricle, and arriv- ing at the anterior thin edge of the Heart, divides into three branches, a superior, inferior and poste- rior ; the superior continues in the groove, between the Auricle and Ventricle, around the base of the Heart, gives off numerous branches to the right Au- ricle and Ventricle, and anastomoses with a similar branch from the left or posterior Coronary Artery. The second, or inferior branch, runs from the base of the Heart along the anterior thin edge of this organ to the apex, anastomosing there with several small branches from the left Coronary: this branch supplies the parietes of the right Ventricle. The third or posterior branch appears to be the continua- tion of this Coronary Artery, it bends downwards, and backwards, and runs in that line or groove which is observed on the inferior surface of the Heart, separating this from the posterior surface this branch also joins the anastomosis at the Apex, having supplied the back part of the right Ventricle and the Septum Cordis. c