{"id":1370,"date":"2016-03-14T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2016-03-14T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:07:00","slug":"brachiocephalic-artery-in-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2016\/03\/14\/brachiocephalic-artery-in-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Brachiocephalic Artery in Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In humans, the arch of the aorta has three main branches that deliver blood to the head and arms. \u00a0The cat only has two vessels that branch directly from the aorta. \u00a0 Many of the cat diagrams will show the following diagram to help you locate the brachiocephalic artery, the left and right subclavian arteries, and the left and right common carotids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-aorta-diagram.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1371\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-aorta-diagram.png\" alt=\"cat-aorta-diagram\" width=\"480\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-aorta-diagram.png 480w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-aorta-diagram-250x220.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem with diagrams such as these is that the cat doesn&#8217;t always look exactly like this. \u00a0On the photo below, common carotids and the right subclavian artery look as though they branch from the same spot on the brachiocephalic. \u00a0Dissection of this artery can be challenging because the specimens can vary in their appearance. \u00a0 \u00a0 Also, many reference books refer to the brachicephalic aretery as the innominate artery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/aortic-arch-vessels-labeled.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1372\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/aortic-arch-vessels-labeled-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"aortic-arch-vessels-labeled\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/aortic-arch-vessels-labeled-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/aortic-arch-vessels-labeled-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/aortic-arch-vessels-labeled-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/aortic-arch-vessels-labeled-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/aortic-arch-vessels-labeled.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In humans, the arch of the aorta has three main branches that deliver blood to the head and arms. \u00a0The cat only has two vessels that branch directly from the aorta. \u00a0 Many of the cat diagrams will show the following diagram to help you locate the brachiocephalic artery, the left and right subclavian arteries, and the left and right common carotids. The problem with diagrams such as these is that the cat doesn&#8217;t always look exactly like this. \u00a0On the photo below, common carotids and the right subclavian artery look as though they branch from the same spot on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[247,26,17,23,250,24],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-arteries","tag-artery","tag-brachiocephalic","tag-carotid","tag-innominate","tag-subclavian","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}