Surgical anatomy : a treatise on human anatomy in its application to the practice of medicine and surgery . with the vertebral artery of the opposite side near the lower border of thepons Varolii to form the basilar artery. The first or cervical portion of the verte-bral artery lies behind the internal jugular vein, the inferior thyroid artery, andthe vertebral vein, while near the transverse jsrocess of the sixth cervical verte-bra it lies between the scalenus anticus and longus colli muscles; the thoracicduct lies in front of the left vertebral artery. The second or vertebral portioii lieswi


Surgical anatomy : a treatise on human anatomy in its application to the practice of medicine and surgery . with the vertebral artery of the opposite side near the lower border of thepons Varolii to form the basilar artery. The first or cervical portion of the verte-bral artery lies behind the internal jugular vein, the inferior thyroid artery, andthe vertebral vein, while near the transverse jsrocess of the sixth cervical verte-bra it lies between the scalenus anticus and longus colli muscles; the thoracicduct lies in front of the left vertebral artery. The second or vertebral portioii lieswithin the canal formed by the foramina of the transverse processes of the ui:)persix cervical vertebrse, and is accompanied by the vertebral veins and the vertebralplexus of nerves derived from the inferior cervical sympathetic ganglion ; it liesbetween the vertebral vein in front, and the cervical nerves, which pass out of thespinal canal through the intervertebral foramina, behind. It is in contact with the PLATE CLXXIX: Vertebral arteries Vertebral a Vertebral v Superior vena cava rinceps cervlcis Profunda cervicis a. Superior intercostal a. VERTEBRAL ARTERY IN TRANSVERSE PLATE CLXXX Posterior auricular artery andPosterior aui


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