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Esophageal branches of the aorta

Esophageal branches of thoracic part of aorta
Details
Source descending aorta
Vein esophageal veins
Supplies esophagus
Identifiers
Latin rami oesophageales partis thoracicae aortae
Dorlands
/Elsevier
r_02/12691278
TA A12.2.11.003
FMA 71537
Anatomical terminology
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The esophageal arteries four or five in number, arise from the front of the aorta, and pass obliquely downward to the esophagus, forming a chain of anastomoses along that tube, anastomosing with the esophageal branches of the inferior thyroid arteries above, and with ascending branches from the left inferior phrenic and left gastric arteries below. These arteries supply the middle third of the esophagus.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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