The Anthromica Library
The human body one structure at a time. Every page has a 3D model you can turn, with its parts numbered on it, where it sits, what it does and what supplies it.
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- Lateral tarsal arteryArteria tarsea lateralisA branch of the dorsalis pedis that arches laterally across the tarsal bones beneath the short extensor muscles of the foot.
- Lateral temporomandibular ligamentLigamentum temporomandibulare lateraleThe thickened outer wall of the jaw joint capsule, running from the articular tubercle down and back to the mandibular neck.
- Lateral thoracic arteryArteria thoracica lateralisA paired branch of the axillary artery that runs down the side of the chest along the lower edge of pectoralis minor.
- Lateral thoracic veinVena thoracica lateralisA vein on the side of the chest wall, partnering the lateral thoracic artery, that ends in the axillary vein.
- Lateral thyrohyoid ligamentLigamentum thyreohyoideum lateraleA rounded elastic cord at the back edge of the thyrohyoid membrane, tying the thyroid cartilage's superior horn to the hyoid bone.
- Lateral ventricleVentriculus lateralisThe large, C-shaped cavity inside each cerebral hemisphere, filled with cerebrospinal fluid and opening into the third ventricle.
- Lateral vesical nodesNodi vesicales lateralesSmall lymph nodes beside the urinary bladder, lying along the cord of the obliterated umbilical artery on each side of the pelvis.
- Lateral vestibulospinal tractTractus vestibulospinalis lateralisAn uncrossed descending pathway from the lateral vestibular nucleus through the whole spinal cord, driving extensor muscles to keep the body upright.
- Latissimus dorsi muscleMusculus latissimus dorsiLatissimus dorsi is the broad, flat muscle of the lower back that sweeps up to the arm and pulls it down and back.
- Left ascending lumbar veinVena lumbalis ascendens sinistraA vertical vein on the left of the lumbar spine, linking the common iliac and lumbar veins below with the hemiazygos vein above.
- Left atriumAtrium sinistrumThe upper left chamber of the heart, at its back, which takes oxygenated blood from the lungs and passes it to the left ventricle.
- Left brachiocephalic veinVena brachiocephalica sinistraA long vein crossing the upper mediastinum behind the manubrium, from the left sternoclavicular joint to meet its right partner.
- Left colic arteryArteria colica sinistraThe highest offshoot of the inferior mesenteric artery, running left behind the peritoneum to supply the descending colon and left colic flexure.
- Left colic nodesNodi colici sinistriLymph nodes lying along the left colic artery behind the peritoneum, draining the descending colon and the left colic flexure.
- Left common carotid arteryCarotis communis sinistraThe second branch of the aortic arch, climbing through the superior mediastinum and up the left side of the neck to divide at C4.
- Left coronary arteryArteria coronaria sinistraThe coronary artery arising from the left aortic sinus, a short trunk that soon divides to feed most of the left heart.
- Left gastric arteryArteria gastrica sinistraThe smallest branch of the coeliac trunk, running up to the oesophageal end of the stomach and then along its lesser curvature.
- Left gastro-omental veinVena gastroomentalis sinistraA vein following the stomach's greater curvature from right to left that drains the stomach and greater omentum into the splenic vein.
- Left inferior lobar bronchusBronchus lobaris inferior sinisterThe lower terminal branch of the left main bronchus, running down and back into the lower lobe of the left lung.
- Left inferior pulmonary veinVena pulmonalis sinistra inferiorThe lowest vein at the left hilum, returning oxygenated blood from the left lower lobe to the left atrium.
- Left lobe of thymusLobus sinister thymiThe left of the two lobes of the thymus, lying behind the sternum in the superior and anterior mediastinum in front of the great vessels.
- Left main bronchusBronchus principalis sinisterThe longer, narrower of the two airways formed where the trachea divides, carrying air beneath the aortic arch into the left lung.
- Left pulmonary arteryArteria pulmonalis sinistraThe shorter of the two terminal branches of the pulmonary trunk, carrying deoxygenated blood from the heart into the left lung.
- Left renal arteryArteria renum sinistraThe short artery that leaves the left side of the abdominal aorta just below the superior mesenteric artery to supply the left kidney.