cystic artery

1. 1.

   a branch of the hepatic artery; supplies the gall bladder and the surface of the liver

   Synonymsarteria cystica

   Broaderartery

Questions about cystic artery

What does cystic artery mean?

cystic artery means "a branch of the hepatic artery; supplies the gall bladder and the surface of the liver".

What is another word for cystic artery?

Close synonyms include arteria cystica. 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 cystic artery a common word?

cystic 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.