arteria cerebri

1. 1.

   any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex

   Synonymscerebral artery

   Broaderartery

   Narroweranterior cerebral arterymiddle cerebral arteryposterior cerebral arterytemporal artery

Questions about arteria cerebri

What does arteria cerebri mean?

arteria cerebri means "any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex".

What is another word for arteria cerebri?

Close synonyms include cerebral artery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arteria cerebri a common word?

arteria cerebri is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.