Subscapular artery

Subscapular artery
Axillary artery and its branches, including subscapular artery - anterior view of right upper limb and thorax.
The scapular and circumflex arteries.
Details
Source	Axillary artery
Branches	circumflex scapular artery, thoracodorsal artery
Supplies	Latissimus dorsi
Identifiers
Latin	arteria subscapularis
TA	A12.2.09.013
FMA	22677
Anatomical terminology []

The subscapular artery, the largest branch of the axillary artery, arises at the lower border of the Subscapularis muscle, which it follows to the inferior angle of the scapula, where it anastomoses with the lateral thoracic and intercostal arteries, and with the descending branch of the dorsal scapular artery (a.k.a. deep branch of the transverse cervical artery if it arises from the cervical trunk), and ends in the neighboring muscles.

About 4 cm. from its origin it gives off two branches, first the scapular circumflex artery and then the thoracodorsal artery.

Subscapular artery

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