external iliac artery

1. 1.

   the outer branch of the common iliac artery on either side of the body; becomes the femoral artery

   Broaderiliac artery

Questions about external iliac artery

What does external iliac artery mean?

external iliac artery means "the outer branch of the common iliac artery on either side of the body; becomes the femoral artery".

Is external iliac artery a common word?

external 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.