axillary artery in dogs

Artery that supplies the axilla. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the axillary artery is

Artery that supplies the axilla. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the axillary artery is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the axillary artery connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of shoulder.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the axillary artery. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as arteria axillaris, axillary part of subclavian artery and axillary part of trunk of subclavian artery. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001394, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: shoulder.
• A kind of: artery.
• Connected to: subclavian artery, brachial artery, lateral thoracic artery, subscapular artery and thoraco-acromial artery.
• Supplies: axilla.

Questions

Where is the axillary artery?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the axillary artery connect to?

Part of: shoulder.

Is the axillary artery the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.