Paraskevas George K, Koutsouflianiotis Konstantinos N, Patsikas Michail, Noussios George
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Surg Radiol Anat. 2019 Oct;41(10):1155-1162. doi: 10.1007/s00276-019-02238-3. Epub 2019 Apr 26.
The term "azygos vein" is in common use in modern anatomical and cardiovascular textbooks to describe the vein which ascends to the right side of the vertebral column in the region of the posterior mediastinum draining into the superior vena cava. "Azygos" in Greek means "without a pair", explaining the lack of a similar vein on the left side of the vertebral column in the region of the thorax. The term "azygos" vein was utilized firstly by Galen and then was regenerated during Sylvius' dissections and Vesalius' anatomical research, where it received its final concept as an official anatomical term. The purpose of this study is to highlight the origin of the term "azygos vein" to the best of our knowledge for the first time and its evolution from the era of Hippocrates to Realdo Colombo.
“奇静脉”一词在现代解剖学和心血管教科书中普遍使用，用于描述在后纵隔区域沿脊柱右侧上行并汇入上腔静脉的静脉。希腊语中的“奇静脉”意思是“不成对”，这解释了在胸部区域脊柱左侧没有类似静脉的情况。“奇静脉”这一术语最早由盖伦使用，后来在西尔维于斯的解剖以及维萨里的解剖学研究中得以重新使用，并在那时作为一个正式的解剖学术语获得了最终的概念。本研究的目的是首次尽我们所知突出“奇静脉”这一术语的起源及其从希波克拉底时代到雷亚尔多·科隆博时代的演变。
