arteria lingualis

1. 1.

   an artery originating from the external carotid artery and supplying the under side of the tongue

   Synonymslingual artery

   Broaderartery

   Part ofmouth

Questions about arteria lingualis

What does arteria lingualis mean?

arteria lingualis means "an artery originating from the external carotid artery and supplying the under side of the tongue".

What is another word for arteria lingualis?

Close synonyms include lingual 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 lingualis a common word?

arteria lingualis 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.