Sentence examples for brachial from high-quality English sources.

• …this, in turn, becomes the brachial artery as it passes down the upper arm.

• An estimated 87% of torture survivors experience chronic pain such as brachial plexopathy from upper extremity suspension or lumbosacral plexus injury from leg hyperextension.

• Crothers performed clinical research concerning birth trauma, particularly brachial plexus injuries, and cerebral palsy.

• A network called a brachial plexus arises in relation to each upper limb and a lumbosacral plexus in relation to each lower limb.

• Common pulse points include the carotid artery of the neck, the brachial artery inside the elbow, and the radial artery in the wrist.

• Cervical levels C5–C8 and thoracic level T1 contribute to the formation of the brachial plexus; small nerve bundles also arrive from C4 and T2.

• In some of the cuttlefishes (Sepioidea) the cerebral centres are subdivided for specialization, with the pedal ganglia divided into brachial and epipodal elements that innervate the arms and funnel respectively.

• The pulse is readily distinguished at the following locations: (1) at the point in the wrist where the radial artery approaches the surface; (2) at the side of the lower jaw where the external maxillary (facial) artery crosses it; (3) at the temple above and to the outer side of the eye, where the temporal artery is near the surface; (4) on the side of the neck, from the carotid artery; (5) on the inner side of the biceps, from the brachial artery; (6) in the groin, from the femoral artery; (7) behind the knee, from the popliteal artery; (8) on the upper side of the foot, from the dorsalis pedis artery.