Definition of Innominate artery

1. Noun. A large artery arising from the arch of the aorta and divides into the right subclavian artery and the right common carotid artery; supplies the right side of the neck and head and the right shoulder and arm.


Medical Definition of Innominate artery

1. An obsolete term for brachiocephalic trunk. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Innominate artery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The branches given off from the arch of the aorta are three in number : the innominate artery, the left common carotid, and the left subclavian. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"That while the ligation of the innominate artery is not of necessity ... When the innominate artery was tied something in the wall was felt to give way. ..."

3. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"innominate artery ; hut on the left side the carotid arises within tl».* thorax, from the middle part of the arch of the aorta, very near ti*-* origin of ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"__ \ THE innominate artery . may, in the former case, produce dilatation of the pupil; in the latter, contraction, if the conducting power is abolished, ..."

5. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"ANEURISM OF THE innominate artery. SYMPTOMS.—The general symptoms of an ... An aneurisma] tumor of the innominate artery may extend backwards so as to come ..."

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