circumflex iliac artery

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   an artery that supplies the lower abdominal walls and skin and the sartorius muscle

   Synonymsarteria circumflexa ilium

   Broadercircumflex artery

Questions about circumflex iliac artery

What does circumflex iliac artery mean?

circumflex iliac artery means "an artery that supplies the lower abdominal walls and skin and the sartorius muscle".

What is another word for circumflex iliac artery?

Close synonyms include arteria circumflexa ilium. 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 iliac artery a common word?

circumflex iliac artery 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.