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A muscle in the upper arm that flexes the elbow joint.

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  • Or the nerve and vessel may be lying concealed beneath a slip of the brachialis anticus muscle, E,
  • B. Axillary artery, crossed by one root of the median nerve; b, basilic vein, forming, with a, the axillary vein, A.C. C.raco-brachialis muscle.
  • I had two reasons: one, obviously, was to add a PhD to the doctorate that I had earned with a thesis on the clinical problems of neuritis of the plexus brachialis at the...
  • When the vessel has passed the insertion of the coraco-brachialis, it becomes situated at the inner side of the biceps, which also partly overlaps it, as it now lies on...
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