axillary vein

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 human body.

Where the axillary vein is

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

What the axillary vein connects to

The atlas records 14 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, circumflex humeral vein and lateral thoracic vein, and 4 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.

• Part of: shoulder.
• A kind of: vein.
• Connected to: subclavian vein.
• Drains: axilla.
• drains to: basilic vein, brachial vein, caudal humeral circumflex vein, cephalic vein, circumflex humeral vein and lateral thoracic vein, and 4 more.

Questions

Where is the axillary vein?

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

What does the axillary vein connect to?

Part of: shoulder.

Is the axillary vein 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.