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superior phrenic artery
Origin:
-> thoracic aorta (paired branch, just superior to the diaphragm)
Distribution: diaphragm
Anastomoses:
1) superior phrenic artery
2) pericardiacophrenic artery
3) musculophrenic artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: superior phrenic artery
ORIGIN: aorta
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium