axillary vein

vena axillaris

Cardiovascular

3D model: axillary vein — 3D models: BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International

In 3 atlases

Adult male (BodyParts3D)
Right upper limb (Open3DModel)
Adult male, detailed (Z-Anatomy)

Definition

Vein that drains the axilla.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Relations

Arterial supply: axillary artery
Venous drainage: subclavian vein

Sub-structures

left axillary vein
right axillary vein

Neighbouring structures

tributary of subclavian vein

Practice questions

Wikipedia (English)

Identifiers

TA2: 4963
TA98: A12.3.08.005
FMA: 13329
UBERON: 0000985
Wikidata: Q682122