circumflex artery of the thigh

1. 1.

   an artery that supplies the hip joint and thigh muscles

   Synonymsarteria circumflexa femoris

   Broadercircumflex artery

   Part ofthigh

Questions about circumflex artery of the thigh

What does circumflex artery of the thigh mean?

circumflex artery of the thigh means "an artery that supplies the hip joint and thigh muscles".

What is another word for circumflex artery of the thigh?

Close synonyms include arteria circumflexa femoris. 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 circumflex artery of the thigh a common word?

circumflex artery of the thigh 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.