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lateral thoracic vein

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002088

The lateral thoracic vein is a tributary of the axillary vein. It runs with the lateral thoracic artery and drains the serratus ventralis muscle and the Pectoralis major muscle. Normally, the thoracoepigastric vein exists between this vein and superficial epigastric vein (a tributary of femoral vein), to act as a shunt for blood if the portal system (through the liver) develops hypertension or a blockage. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thoracic_vein ]

Term info

Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Gray576.png

has related synonym

vena thoracica lateralis

id

UBERON:0002088

prefLabel

Lateral thoracic vein

present in taxon

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