See Also: posterior intercostal arteries(medicine)
collateral branches of posterior intercostal arteries 3-11(medicine)
dorsal branch of the posterior intercostal arteries 3-11(medicine)
intercostal arteries(medicine)
anterior intercostal arteries(medicine)
posterior intercostal veins(medicine)
dorsal branch of the posterior intercostal veins 4-11(medicine)
posterior peroneal arteries(medicine)
posterior labial arteries(medicine)
posterior mediastinal arteries(medicine)

posterior intercostal arteries (medicine)


posterior intercostal arteries
Terminal branches of the superior intercostal artery (from costocervical trunk) supplying upper two intercostal spaces (1-2).

Posterior intercostal arteries 3-11, one of nine pairs of arteries arising from the thoracic aorta and distributed to the nine lower intercostal spaces, vertebral column, spinal cord, and muscles and integument of the back; they anastomose with branches of the musculophrenic, internal thoracic, superior epigastric, subcostal and lumbar.

Synonym: arteriae intercostales posteriores.