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What type of joint is the firs chondrosternal joint?

What is the most anterior part of the thorasic inlet?

What is the name given to the space between the pleural cavities?

Which vertebral level demarkates the bottom of the superior compartment of this?

What vein is formed by the union of the subclavian and jugular veins posterior to the sternoclavicular joint?

At what costal cartilage level do two of these veins converge to produce the superior vena cava?

What vein joins to the SVC after this?

Which pair of arteries (right and left) are the first branches from the aorta?

At which vertebral levels is the arch of the aorta found?

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The arch of the aorta has 3 branches left common carotid, left subclavian and which third?

The subclavian has 4 major branches, what is the name given to the one that runs in the cervical vertebraes transverse foramen, before entering the foramen magnum?

What is the name of the artery that supplies the upper intercostal spaces?

The thorasic duct enters the venous system behind which joint?

What is the name for the organ found in the superior mediastinum of children, and after puberty it atrophies and undergoes fibrofatty degeneration?

Which nerve roots does the phrenic nerve arise from?

Overall which of the phrenic and vagus nerve is more anterior?

Both vagi give of a branch, the left after descending behind the left bronchus, the right after passing anteriorly to the right subclavian artery, what is the name of this branch?

What is the name of the plexus that both vagi give sympathetic fibres to, in the thorax?