This covers the great vessels of the heart within cardiac anatomy: the venous system converging into the superior vena cava (formed by right and left brachiocephalic veins, each themselves formed by internal jugular and subclavian veins draining the head/neck and upper limb), and the arterial system emerging from the heart as the aortic arch (giving rise to the brachiocephalic trunk on the right, which splits into common carotid and subclavian arteries, versus separate direct-origin common carotid and subclavian arteries on the left) and the pulmonary trunk (bifurcating into right and left pulmonary arteries). It also covers the ligamentum arteriosum as the fibrous remnant of the fetal ductus arteriosus, and the anatomic convention of describing an aortic arch as "left-sided" or "right-sided" based on which main bronchus it crosses—terminology relevant to classifying congenital heart disease.
This covers the great vessels of the heart within cardiac anatomy: the venous system converging into the superior vena cava (formed by right and left brachiocephalic veins, each themselves formed by …