Axillary nerve

Axillary nerve
Axillary nerve
	Brachial plexus. (Axillary nerve is visible in gray near center.)
	The suprascapular, axillary, and radial nerves. (Axillary labeled at upper right.)
Details
From	Posterior cord (C5, C6)
Innervates	Deltoid, teres minor
Identifiers
Latin	nervus axillaris
TA98	A14.2.03.059
TA2	6440
FMA	37072
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The axillary nerve or the circumflex nerve is a nerve of the human body, that originates from the brachial plexus (upper trunk, posterior division, posterior cord) at the level of the axilla (armpit) and carries nerve fibers from C5 and C6.^[1]^[2]^[3] The axillary nerve travels through the quadrangular space with the posterior circumflex humeral artery and vein to innervate the deltoid and teres minor.

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