The use of the basilic for the removal of blood is fast disappearing from general practice.
When the basilic vein arrives at the axillary space it takes on the name of the axillary vein, and as the vessel passes beneath the subclavian bone, it becomes the subclavian vein.
The basilic or axillary vein may be used to remove blood from the heart instead of the femoral.
To withdraw blood from the basilic vein the left arm should be employed, because of a more direct route to the right auricle.
Prepare two ligatures, make the incision in the vein and pass gently the basilic drainage tube upward toward the heart.
The median basilic unites with the ulnar vein to form the basilic, which runs up the inner part of the arm between the biceps and triceps muscles.
The deep brachial veins or the vena comites, two in number, which follow the brachial artery, run into the basilic vein.
The basilic vein lies in the upper arm and extends from the elbow to the shoulder, and can be found a short distance from the brachial artery, either above or below, but generally below and toward the body.
The left median basilic vein is selected, and a platino-iridium needle with a short point and a bore larger than that of the ordinary hypodermic syringe is used.
In former times the most common situation was at the bend of the elbow, the brachial artery being accidentally punctured in blood-letting from the median basilic vein.
Sold for basilic powder, to which it approaches nearer in composition than the preceding.
Though the axillary vein is in close contact with the axillary artery and nerves, yet the basilic vein, d*, the most considerable of those vessels which form the axillary vein, is separated from the brachial artery by the fascia.
Axillary vein, cut and tied; a, the basilic vein, cut.
Over this fascial process lies the median basilic vein, F B, Plate 15, accompanying which are seen some branches of the internal cutaneous nerve.
The basilic vein, B, is accompanied by the internal cutaneous nerve, which branches in a similar way over the fascia of the inner and fore part of the forearm.
In the whole of this course it is covered by the fascia of the arm, which serves to isolate it from the superficial basilic vein, B, and the internal cutaneous nerve, both of which nevertheless overlie the artery.
He is met, before he enters their college, by the minor penitentiaries, who at this basilic are Franciscans, minori osservanti.
No other vein should be taken, but if neither the basilic vein nor one of its branches can be found, the bleeding may be performed upon the median vein, for certain branches of the basilic and cephalic veins unite to form the median.
If, therefore, the disease is in the right foot, he bleeds from the basilic vein, or some of its branches, in the right hand.
Accordingly she was robust, and I bled her from the basilic vein of the left hand and the saphena of the right foot, both within an hour.
Illustration] Venesection is usually practised on either the basilic or the cephalic vein, or else on the median basilic or the median cephalic.
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