internal iliac artery

1. 1.

   the inner branch of the common iliac artery on either side of the body; divides into several branches that supply blood to the pelvic and gluteal areas

   Synonymshypogastric artery

   Broaderiliac artery

Questions about internal iliac artery

What does internal iliac artery mean?

internal iliac artery means "the inner branch of the common iliac artery on either side of the body; divides into several branches that supply blood to the pelvic and gluteal areas".

What is another word for internal iliac artery?

Close synonyms include hypogastric artery. 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 internal iliac artery a common word?

internal 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.