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internal thoracic artery
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An artery that supplies the anterior chest wall and the breasts. It is a paired artery, with one running along each side of the sternum, to continue after its bifurcation as the superior epigastric and musculophrenic arteries. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_thoracic_artery ]
Term info
Label
internal thoracic artery
Synonyms
- internal mammary artery
- internal thoracic mammary artery
Subsets
uberon_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Gray522.png
external ontology notes
MA has both mammary and thoracic
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
arteria mammaria interna, mammary artery, arteria thoracica interna
id
UBERON:0002456
Term relations
Subclass of:
- systemic artery
- material entity
- supplies some breast
- part of some subclavian artery
- branching part of some subclavian artery