axillary artery

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 human body.

Where the axillary artery is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

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. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the axillary artery connect to?

Part of: shoulder.

Is the axillary artery the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.