innominate

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Right Subclavian.—The innominate artery divides into the right subclavian and right carotid exactly behind the sterno-clavicular articulation.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

The cup-shaped cavity of the innominate bone for receiving the head of the femur.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

Make out the external jugular, the innominate, and its two branches, and the pulmo-cutaneous and vena cava superior.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The innominate artery is the largest and passes upward and to the right, to the root of the neck, where it divides into the right common carotid and the right subclavian.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

The inferior thyroid veins which drop their blood into the innominate are obstructed by valves at their junction.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various