The width of the scalenus muscle, X, separates the vein from the artery. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Left subclavian vein, which lies anterior to d, the scalenus anticus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
One additional muscle binds down the subclavian artery, viz., the scalenus anticus. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
An instance is recorded by Blandin in which the vein passed in company with the artery under the scalenus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
A, the subclavian artery, in the third part of its course, as it emerges from behind N, the scalenus anticus; L, the transversalis colli artery. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Above and below D, Plate 6, the thyroid axis, come off the vertebral and internal mammary arteries internal and anterior to the scalenus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Cervical plexus of nerves giving off the phrenic nerve to descend the neck on the outer side of the internal jugular vein and over the scalenus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The root of the internal jugular vein, when injected, will be seen to occupy considerable space behind the clavicle; and the anterior scalenus muscle is substantial and fleshy. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
In the neck, the subclavian artery, B, Plate 11, is seen to be separated from the subclavian vein, A, by the breadth of the anterior scalenus muscle, D, as the vessels arch over the first rib, F. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The subclavian artery, A, Plate 4, first appears superficial to the above-named muscles of the cervical region just at the point where, passing from behind the scalenus muscle, N, Plate 4, which also conceals it, it sinks behind the clavicle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The middle of this arching subclavian artery is (by as much as the thickness of the scalenus muscle, X, Plate 5) deeper situated than either extremity of the arch of this vessel, and deeper also than any part of the common carotid, by the same fact. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Page 257 descends on the inner side of the scalenus anticus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
Platysma, sterno-mastoid and scalenus anticus muscles; phrenic nerve and cervicle fascia. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
Liston cut through the outer portion of the scalenus with success for an idiopathic aneurism. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
Sometimes the artery passes in front of the scalenus muscle, and occasionally through its fibres. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
The subclavian vein is generally quite safe, running in front of the scalenus anticus, and at a lower level. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
The lowest cord of the brachial plexus lies immediately behind the artery, between it and the middle scalenus. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
The left artery passes almost perpendicularly upwards to the scalenus muscle and then curves outwards and downwards to the lower border of. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
The artery is found invariably on the outside of the projecting tubercle or the first rib, which gives attachment to the scalenus anticus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
It has, however, special elements of danger in it, involved in the unavoidable division, of part at least, or probably the whole, of the scalenus anticus. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
After the skin, platysma, and muscles have been divided, as already described, the deep cervical fascia requires division close to the inner edge of the scalenus anticus. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
Aneurisms of the axillary or subclavian artery encroaching upon the scalenus muscle, or wounds of the second portion of the artery, may possibly justify this operation as a last resort. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
That portion of the artery which is included between the outer margin of the scalenus muscle and the lower border of the first rib, is always selected as the proper site for deligation, when it is possible to do so. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
The anterior scalenus muscle defines the three parts, the first extending to the inner border of the muscle, the second being concealed by the muscle, and the third reaching from its outer border to the lower border of the first rib. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
In its first portion, the course of the right artery is obliquely upwards and outwards; in its second, it is transversely outwards; and in its third, obliquely down wards and outwards, so that it forms, between its terminal points, an arch whose centre is nearly behind the scalenus anticus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
N. Anterior scalenus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
D. Anterior scalenus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
O. Anterior scalenus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Part of anterior scalenus muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Greek φ or ph; ulcus, ulcere, ulcer, sore, and hence sorry, sorrow, sorrowful; ingenium, engine, gin, scalenus, leaning, unless you would rather derive it from κλινω, whence inclino; infundibulum, funnel; gagates, jett, projectum, to jett forth, a jetty; cucullus, a cowl. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
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