arteria ileocolica

1. 1.

   an artery that originates from the superior mesenteric artery and supplies the terminal part of the ileum and the cecum and the vermiform appendix and the ascending colon

   Synonymsileocolic artery

   Broaderartery

Questions about arteria ileocolica

What does arteria ileocolica mean?

arteria ileocolica means "an artery that originates from the superior mesenteric artery and supplies the terminal part of the ileum and the cecum and the vermiform appendix and the ascending colon".

What is another word for arteria ileocolica?

Close synonyms include ileocolic 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 ileocolica a common word?

arteria ileocolica 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.