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axillary vein

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000985

Vein that drains the axilla. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Synonyms: vena axillaris

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000008

In human anatomy, the axillary vein is a large blood vessel that conveys blood from the lateral aspect of the thorax, axilla (armpit) and upper limb toward the heart. There is one axillary vein on each side of the body. Its origin is at the lower margin of the teres major muscle and a continuation of the brachial vein. Its tributaries include the basilic vein and cephalic vein, which are both superficial veins. It terminates at the lateral margin of the first rib, at which it becomes the subclavian vein. It is accompanied along its course by a similarly named artery, the axillary artery

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has related synonym

subcostal vein

id

UBERON:0000985

prefLabel

Axillary vein

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606