ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into two branches that serve (1) the thalamus and (2) parts of the frontal and parietal cortex

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("anterior cerebral artery" is a kind of...):

arteria cerebri; cerebral artery (any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex)

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