thoracodorsal artery

The thoracodorsal artery is a branch of the subscapular artery. It travels inferiorly with the thoracodorsal nerve and supplies the latissimus dorsi. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the thoracodorsal artery is

The thoracodorsal artery is a branch of the subscapular artery. It travels inferiorly with the thoracodorsal nerve and supplies the latissimus dorsi. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the thoracodorsal artery is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the thoracodorsal artery connects to

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

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the thoracodorsal 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 thoracodorsalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002011, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: artery.
• Connected to: subscapular artery.
• Supplies: latissimus dorsi muscle.

Questions

Where is the thoracodorsal artery?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the thoracodorsal artery connect to?

A kind of: artery.

Is the thoracodorsal 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.