thoracodorsal vein

Definition

Companion vein of the thoracodorsal artery, draining the apical part of the latissimus dorsi and merging with the circumflex scapular vein to form a subscapular vein.

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

thoracodorsal artery

Venous drainage

circumflex scapular vein

Sub-structures

• left thoracodorsal vein
• right thoracodorsal vein

Neighbouring structures

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

Identifiers

TA2

4974

TA98

A12.3.08.008

FMA

71213

UBERON

0002089

Wikidata

Q66569042