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The arteries of the head and neck. The common carotid artery. The external carotid artery; The triangles of the neck; The internal carotid artery; The arteries of the brain; The arteries of the upper extremity The subclavian artery; The axilla. The axillary artery; The brachial artery; The radial artery; The ulnar artery; The arteries of the ...
Inferior ulnar collateral artery; Radial artery (used to palpate radial pulse)(a terminal branch) Ulnar artery (a terminal branch) Nutrient branches to the humerus; It also gives rise to important anastomotic networks of the elbow and (as the axillary artery) the shoulder. The biceps head is lateral to the brachial artery. The median nerve is ...
The radial artery arises from the bifurcation of the brachial artery in the antecubital fossa.It runs distally on the anterior part of the forearm. There, it serves as a landmark for the division between the anterior and posterior compartments of the forearm, with the posterior compartment beginning just lateral to the artery.
2.3.6 Brachial artery. 3 Thoracic aorta. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Superficial palmar branch of the radial artery; radial branches at the wrist;
It follows closely the radial nerve, running at first backward between the long and medial [1] heads of the triceps brachii, then along the groove for the radial nerve (the radial sulcus), where it is covered by the lateral head of the triceps brachii, to the lateral side of the arm; there it pierces the lateral intermuscular septum, and, descending between the brachioradialis and the ...
The brachial artery. The artery usually bifurcates near the apex (inferior part) of the cubital fossa into the radial artery (superficial) and ulnar artery (deeper) The median nerve; The ulnar nerve is also in the area, but is not in the cubital fossa; it occupies a groove on the posterior aspect of the medial epicondyle of the humerus.
The radial collateral artery (another term for the anterior descending branch of the profunda brachii artery) is a branch of the deep brachial artery. It arises in the arm proper and anastomoses with the radial recurrent artery near the elbow.
The radial recurrent artery arises from the radial artery immediately below the elbow.. It ascends between the branches of the radial nerve, lying on the supinator muscle and then between the brachioradialis muscle and the brachialis muscle, supplying these muscles and the elbow-joint, and anastomosing with the terminal part of the profunda brachii.