brachial vein

A vein that accompanies the brachial artery between the shoulder and the elbow. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the brachial vein is

A vein that accompanies the brachial artery between the shoulder and the elbow. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the brachial vein is

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

What the brachial vein connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and arm, and 5 more.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: axillary vein, subclavian vein, radial vein and ulnar vein.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001413, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the brachial vein?

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

What does the brachial vein connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, arm, forelimb, limb and organism subdivision, and 2 more.

Is the brachial 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.