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axillary nerve
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The axillary nerve is a nerve of the human body, that comes off the posterior cord of the brachial plexus at the level of the axilla (armpit) and carries nerve fibers from C5 and C6. The axillary nerve travels through the quadrangular space with the posterior circumflex humeral artery and vein. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axillary_nerve ]
Term info
Label
axillary nerve
Synonyms
- circumflex humeral nerve
Subsets
uberon_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Brachial_plexus_2.svg, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Brachial_plexus.jpg
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
nervus axillaris, auxillery nerve, circumflex nerve
id
UBERON:0001493