Vena basilica

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Course of the two vein trunks of the arm

The vena basilica ( Arabic : al-baslik - inside) is the vein that begins as the vena basilica antebrachii on the little finger side of the back of the hand and runs to the flexor side. In the crook of the elbow it absorbs the vena mediana cubiti (already called mediana in the Middle Ages ) or vena mediana basilica and is now called vena basilica. It opens into one of the two brachial veins in the middle of the medial biceps furrow in the basilic hiatus.

Medical importance

The basilic vein in the crook of the elbow, like the cephalic vein on the outside of the upper arm, is often used for blood draws or intravenous injections. It must be differentiated from a superficial brachial artery, as it can lead to serious damage in the event of an injection of certain drugs.

Others

The German name as "Königsvene" from der (Latin word meaning basilica - Säulenhalle / Königshalle) is misleading and has no relation to the meaning or function of this vein. The right jugular basilica formerly bore the names vena hepatica (also briefly hepatica ) and hepatic artery and bloodletting was an important site. The root of the (left) vena basilica (the carpal vein) was called the spleen vein in Middle High German . In the Middle Ages, the names of the elbow vein Vena mediana were also German median and central vein , the vena basilica also carried the name Lungader or Niederader .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dartmouth.edu
  2. ↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 150: mediana (mēdiān) = Vena mediana (cubiti or antebrachii). For example in “mediana gaut from the lungs and to the middle of the arm”.
  3. ↑ Detlev Drenckhahn, Jens Waschke (eds.): A. Benninghoff, D. Drenckhahn: Benninghoff Taschenbuch Anatomie . Elsevier, 2007, ISBN 978-3-437-41194-6 .
  4. ↑ Adolf Fonahn: Arabic and Latin anatomical terminology, chiefly from the Middle Ages. Oslo 1922 (= Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II: historisk-filosofisk Klasse. 1921, Volume 7), p. 159.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 137.
  6. ↑ Thomas Gleinser: Anna von Diesbach's Bernese 'Pharmacopoeia' in the Erlacher version of Daniel von Werdts (1658), Part II: Glossary. (Medical dissertation Würzburg) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1989 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 46), p. 179.
  7. ^ Bernhard D. Haage: A new text testimony to the plague poem of Hans Andree. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 267–282, here: p. 279.