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... all points by large veins, important nerves, and by its own principal branches. The vagus nerve, S E, Plate 6, crosses it at B, its root; external to which place the large internal jugular vein, K, Plate 5, lies upon it; external to this latter, the scalenus muscle, X, Plate 5, with the phrenic nerve lying upon the muscle, binds it fixedly to the first rib; more external still, the common trunk of the external jugular and shoulder veins, U, Plate 5, lie upon the vessel, and it is in the immediate vicinity of the great brachial plexus of ... — Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise |