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Definition of Radial artery

1. Noun. Branch of the brachial artery beginning below the elbow and extending down the forearm around the wrist and into the palm.

Definition of Radial artery

1. Noun. (medicine human anatomy) The main artery that enters the wrist on the side of the thumb. ¹

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Medical Definition of Radial artery

1. The direct continuation of the brachial trunk, originating at the bifurcation of the brachial artery opposite the neck of the radius. Its branches may be divided into three groups corresponding to the three regions in which the vessel is situated, the forearm, wrist, and hand. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radial Artery

Literary usage of Radial artery

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

1. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The radial artery, commencing at the point of bifurcation of the brachial ... The radial artery appears by its direction to be the continuation of the ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"THE radial artery. In the hand it passes from the upper end of the first ... The origin of the radial artery, according to Quain, is, in nearly one case in ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"AMONG the first things which we record in the every-day examina- ton of a patient is the palpability and consistency of the radial artery. ..."

4. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"In the Museum of the College of Surgeons there is a preparation of a radial artery with a small aneurism, about the third of an inch in diameter, ..."

5. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"Such is the usual disposition of the anterior radial artery ; though it is liable to numerous variations : principally in the manner in which it comports ..."

6. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The radial artery is usually selected for the determination of the pulse. ... Branches of the radial artery. — In the forearm the radial artery gives off ..."

7. A Text Book of Anatomy, and Guide in Dissections: For the Use of Students of by Washington R. Handy (1854)
"The radial artery in its course is accompanied by ... BRANCHES OF THE radial artery. The recurrens radialis arises opposite the neck of the radius, ..."

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