brachiocephalic artery

The short first aortic arch branch and divides into the right subclavian artery and the right common carotid artery. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the brachiocephalic artery is

The short first aortic arch branch and divides into the right subclavian artery and the right common carotid artery. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the brachiocephalic artery is

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

What the brachiocephalic artery connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of systemic artery and vasculature.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the brachiocephalic 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 innominate, brachiocephalic trunk, innominate artery and truncus brachiocephalicus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001529, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: systemic artery and vasculature.
• Connected to: arch of aorta, right common carotid artery plus branches and right subclavian artery.
• contains: wall of brachiocephalic artery.

Questions

Where is the brachiocephalic artery?

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

What does the brachiocephalic artery connect to?

A kind of: systemic artery and vasculature.

Is the brachiocephalic 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.