basilic vein in dogs

A superficial vein of the upper limb that drain parts of manus and forearm. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the basilic vein is

A superficial vein of the upper limb that drain parts of manus and forearm. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the basilic vein is

It sits in the forelimb, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the basilic vein connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of forelimb and vasculature.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: axillary vein, subclavian vein and median basilic vein.

Also called

Also recorded as basilic vein of forearm and vena basilica antebrachii. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001411, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: forelimb and vasculature.
• A kind of: forelimb blood vessel and vein.
• Drains: forelimb.
• drains to: axillary vein, subclavian vein and median basilic vein.
• subtype: median basilic vein.

Questions

Where is the basilic vein?

It sits in the forelimb, within the cardiovascular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the basilic vein connect to?

Part of: forelimb and vasculature.

Is the basilic 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.