arteria iliaca

1. 1.

   one of the large arteries supplying blood to the pelvis and legs

   Synonymsiliac artery

   Broaderartery

   Narrowercommon iliac arteryexternal iliac arteryinternal iliac artery

   Part ofilium

Questions about arteria iliaca

What does arteria iliaca mean?

arteria iliaca means "one of the large arteries supplying blood to the pelvis and legs".

What is another word for arteria iliaca?

Close synonyms include iliac 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 iliaca a common word?

arteria iliaca 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.