Brachial artery

With the support of numerous collateral and terminal branches, in fact, the brachial artery supplies the muscles of the arm, forearm and hand, the humerus, the elbow joint and some bone elements of the wrist with oxygenated blood.
The course of the brachial artery begins at the lower edge of the teres major muscle of the shoulder and ends shortly after the elbow, with the subdivision into the terminal branches known as the radial and ulnar artery.
The brachial artery can be the victim of injury or a rather unusual phenomenon called a pseudo-aneurysm.
In the clinical-diagnostic field, the brachial artery is important because it allows to measure the systolic blood pressure (brachial pulse).