Anatom3DLeft anterior circumflex humeral artery
Arteria circumflexa humeri anterior sinistra · Levá přední tepna obkružující kost pažní
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A small axillary branch wrapping around the front of the upper arm bone at its neck.
What it does
Supplies the shoulder joint and the head of the humerus, with a branch in the biceps groove.
Keeping it well
Damaged in fractures of the upper humerus; can contribute to bone death of the humeral head.
Related conditions
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)