arterial plaque

1. 1.

   a fatty deposit inside an arterial wall; characteristic of atherosclerosis

   Broaderplaque

Questions about arterial plaque

What does arterial plaque mean?

arterial plaque means "a fatty deposit inside an arterial wall; characteristic of atherosclerosis".

Is arterial plaque a common word?

arterial plaque 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.