ileocolic artery

1. 1.

   an artery that originates from the superior mesenteric artery and supplies the terminal part of the ileum and the cecum and the vermiform appendix and the ascending colon

   Synonymsarteria ileocolica

   Broaderartery

Questions about ileocolic artery

What does ileocolic artery mean?

ileocolic artery means "an artery that originates from the superior mesenteric artery and supplies the terminal part of the ileum and the cecum and the vermiform appendix and the ascending colon".

What is another word for ileocolic artery?

Close synonyms include arteria ileocolica. 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 ileocolic artery a common word?

ileocolic 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.