intercostal artery

1. 1.

   several arteries and supplying the intercostal spaces of the rib cage

   Synonymsarteria intercostalis

   Broaderartery

Questions about intercostal artery

What does intercostal artery mean?

intercostal artery means "several arteries and supplying the intercostal spaces of the rib cage".

What is another word for intercostal artery?

Close synonyms include arteria intercostalis. 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 intercostal artery a common word?

intercostal 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.