posterior circumflex humeral artery
Arteria circumflexa humeri posterior
In 3 atlases
Definition
An artery that branches from the axilliary artery and supplies the deltoid, teres major, teres minor, and long and lateral heads of the triceps brachii muscles, glenohumeral joint, and the cutaneous supply to the area posterolateral to the proximal humerus. This artery courses posteriorly with the axillary nerve, through the quadrangular space, to the posterior aspect of the humerus and anastomoses with the anterior humeral circumflex artery.
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/).
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Neighbouring structures
- anterior circumflex humeral artery
- branch of basilar artery
- branch of brachial artery
- branch of radial artery
- branch of ulnar artery
- branch of vertebral artery
- internal thoracic artery
- lateral thoracic artery
- radial artery
- subdivision of costocervical artery
- subdivision of internal thoracic artery
- subdivision of subscapular artery
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 4631
- TA98
- A12.2.09.017
- FMA
- 22684
- UBERON
- 8600107
- Wikidata
- Q707104