colic artery

1. 1.

   arteries that supply blood to the colon

   Synonymsarteria colica

   Broaderartery

   Part ofabdomen

Questions about colic artery

What does colic artery mean?

colic artery means "arteries that supply blood to the colon".

What is another word for colic artery?

Close synonyms include arteria colica. 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 colic artery a common word?

colic 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.