infraorbital artery

1. 1.

   an artery that originates from the maxillary artery and supplies structures below the orbit (from lower eyelid to upper lip)

   Synonymsarteria infraorbitalis

   Broaderartery

Questions about infraorbital artery

What does infraorbital artery mean?

infraorbital artery means "an artery that originates from the maxillary artery and supplies structures below the orbit (from lower eyelid to upper lip)".

What is another word for infraorbital artery?

Close synonyms include arteria infraorbitalis. 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 infraorbital artery a common word?

infraorbital 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.