iliac artery

Questions about iliac artery

What does iliac artery mean?

iliac artery means "one of the large arteries supplying blood to the pelvis and legs".

What is another word for iliac artery?

Close synonyms include arteria iliaca. 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 iliac artery a common word?

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.