lumbar artery

1. 1.

   one of four or five pairs of arteries that originate in the abdominal aorta and supply the lumbar vertebrae and the back muscles and abdominal wall

   Synonymsarteria lumbalis

   Broaderartery

Questions about lumbar artery

What does lumbar artery mean?

lumbar artery means "one of four or five pairs of arteries that originate in the abdominal aorta and supply the lumbar vertebrae and the back muscles and abdominal wall".

What is another word for lumbar artery?

Close synonyms include arteria lumbalis. 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 lumbar artery a common word?

lumbar 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.