brachial vein

Venae brachiales

Cardiovascular

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

In 2 atlases

Adult male (BodyParts3D)
Adult male, detailed (Z-Anatomy)

Definition

A vein that accompanies the brachial artery between the shoulder and the elbow.

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

Venous drainage: axillary vein

Sub-structures

left brachial veins
right brachial veins
medial brachial vein

Neighbouring structures

anterior circumflex humeral vein
basilic vein
cephalic vein
circumflex scapular vein
lateral thoracic vein
subscapular vein
thoracodorsal vein
tributary of basilic vein
tributary of brachial vein

Practice questions

Wikipedia (English)

Identifiers

TA2: 4982
TA98: A12.3.08.029
FMA: 22934
UBERON: 0001413
Wikidata: Q939933