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One additional muscle binds down the subclavian artery, viz., the scalenus anticus.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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In the middle of the leg, the vessel passes between the extensor longus pollicis, and the tibialis anticus muscles.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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A, the subclavian artery, in the third part of its course, as it emerges from behind N, the scalenus anticus; L, the transversalis colli artery,
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Left subclavian vein, which lies anterior to d, the scalenus anticus muscle.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The common carotid, or the internal, may be compressed against the rectus capitis anticus major muscle, 13, Plate 6, as it lies on the fore-part of the vertebral column.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Contraction can be induced in the extensor longus hallucis, extensor longus digitorum, and peroneus brevis; but reaction is doubtful in the case of the tibialis anticus and peroneus longus.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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_Of the lower leg_: The _tibialis anticus_ on the front side, exterior to the tibia, and the _gastrocnemius_, the large muscle in the calf of the leg.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The quadriceps group of muscles is assisted by the anterior digital extensor (extensor pedis) peroneus tertius and tibialis anticus (flexor metatarsi) muscles.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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_Thorax_ anticus valde productus et attenuatus; scutellum bispinosum; metathorax magnus, declivis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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D. Scalenus anticus muscle stretching over the artery, and separating it from the internal jugular vein.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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