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CEREBRAL ARTERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex
Synonyms:
arteria cerebri; cerebral artery
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cerebral artery" is a kind of...):
arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cerebral artery"):
anterior cerebral artery (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)
middle cerebral artery (one of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into three branches)
posterior cerebral artery (arises from the basilar artery; divides into three branches)
temporal artery (any of the three arteries on either side of the brain supplying the cortex of the temporal lobe)
Context examples:
The arteries branching off of the proximal middle cerebral artery that supply the medial region of the putamen and the globus pallidus.
(Medial Lenticulostriate Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
An arterial branch arising from the anterior cerebral artery.
(Anterior Cerebral Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)
Branches of the anterior cerebral artery supply the CAUDATE NUCLEUS, INTERNAL CAPSULE, PUTAMEN, SEPTAL NUCLEI, GYRUS CINGULI, and surfaces of the FRONTAL LOBE and PARIETAL LOBE.
(Anterior Cerebral Artery, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
An artery branching from the anterior cerebral artery that supplies the medial portions of the frontal and superior parietal lobes.
(Medial Orbitofrontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
An artery arising from the A2 segment of the anterior cerebral artery that supplies the corpus callosum.
(Frontopolar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
A balloon type pouch or bulge in the wall of a cerebral artery.
(Cerebral Arterial Aneurysm, NCI Thesaurus)
A branch off of the terminal section of the middle cerebral artery running through the cortex on both sides of the central sulcus.
(Central Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
A terminal branch of the anterior cerebral artery that runs in the pericallosal sulcus and branches to form the inferior and superior internal parietal arteries and precuneal artery supplying the cerebral cortex.
(Pericallosal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
A cortical branch of the middle cerebral artery supplying the ascending frontal convolution.
(Ascending Frontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
Both left and right anterior cerebral arteries are connected by the anterior communicating artery.
(Anterior Cerebral Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
