Median antebrachial vein

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Vein: Median antebrachial vein
Superficial veins of the upper limb. (Median antebrachial vein -- spelled with an "i" -- labeled at bottom right.)
Latin	vena mediana antebrachii
Gray's	subject #172 662
Source	palmar venous plexus
Drains to	basilic vein, median cubital vein
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12850943

The median antebrachial vein drains the venous plexus on the volar surface of the hand.

It ascends on the ulnar side of the front of the forearm and ends in the basilic vein or in the vena mediana cubiti; in a small proportion of cases it divides into two branches, one of which joins the basilic, the other the cephalic, below the elbow.

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