Musculophrenic artery
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| Artery: Musculophrenic artery | |
|---|---|
| (Musculophrenic artery labeled at center left.) | |
| Latin | arteria musculophrenica |
| Gray's | subject #148 584 |
| Source | Internal thoracic |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | a_61/12155159 |
The Musculophrenic Artery is directed obliquely downward and lateralward, behind the cartilages of the false ribs; it perforates the diaphragm at the eighth or ninth costal cartilage, and ends, considerably reduced in size, opposite the last intercostal space.
It gives off intercostal branches to the seventh, eighth, and ninth intercostal spaces; these diminish in size as the spaces decrease in length, and are distributed in a manner precisely similar to the intercostals from the internal mammary.
The musculophrenic also gives branches to the lower part of the pericardium, and others which run backward to the diaphragm, and downward to the abdominal muscles.
[edit] External links
- Dictionary at eMedicine musculophrenic+artery
- SUNY Labs 18:07-0102 - "Thoracic wall: Branches of the Internal Thoracic Artery"
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