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two inches (50 mm.) upward, backward, and to the left. Between 

 the fifth and sixth thoracic vertebrae it divides into two branches, 



Inoomioate 



Temporal 



Ejttcmal drotid 

 Common carolid 

 Subdaviao 

 Aorta 



Axillary 



brachial 



Fig. 117. — The Principal Arteries of the Body. (Morrow.) 



the right and left pulmonary arteries which pass to the right and 

 left lungs. (See Fig. 99.) From these main branches, arteries 

 arise which divide and subdivide, grow smaller in size, and finally 

 merge into capillaries. These capillaries unite, grow larger in size, 



