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internal thoracic artery

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002456

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 ]

Synonyms: internal thoracic mammary artery, internal mammary artery

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000012

MA has both mammary and thoracic

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Gray522.png

has related synonym

arteria mammaria interna, mammary artery, arteria thoracica interna

id

UBERON:0002456

prefLabel

Internal thoracic artery

present in taxon

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