axillary vein in dogs

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

What the axillary vein is

Vein that drains the axilla. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the axillary vein is

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

What the axillary vein connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of shoulder.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: basilic vein, brachial vein, caudal humeral circumflex vein, cephalic vein, lateral thoracic vein and median basilic vein, and 2 more.

Also called

Also recorded as vena axillaris and subcostal vein. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000985, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the axillary vein?

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

What does the axillary vein connect to?

Part of: shoulder.

Is the axillary vein 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.