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

This was no London that he knew, this scented city of Spring, this tropic gloom, this mad innominate cavern that engorged them.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

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

Dr. Peixotto of Portugal applied a precautionary ligature to the innominate in a case where secondary hæmorrhage occurred from the carotid.

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

The available operative measures are proximal ligation of the innominate, and distal ligation.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis