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axillary nerve

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001493


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 ]

Synonyms: circumflex humeral nerve

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Brachial_plexus_2.svg, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Brachial_plexus.jpg

has related synonym

nervus axillaris, auxillery nerve, circumflex nerve

id

UBERON:0001493

prefLabel

Axillary nerve

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606