nutrient artery

1. 1.

   an artery that supplies the medullary cavity of the long bone

   Synonymsarteria nutricia

   Broaderartery

Questions about nutrient artery

What does nutrient artery mean?

nutrient artery means "an artery that supplies the medullary cavity of the long bone".

What is another word for nutrient artery?

Close synonyms include arteria nutricia. 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 nutrient artery a common word?

nutrient 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.