Esophageal branches of thoracic part of aorta

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Esophageal branches of thoracic part of aorta
Details
Latin rami oesophageales partis thoracicae aortae
Source descending aorta
esophageal veins
Supplies esophagus
Identifiers
Dorlands
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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.

References

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

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