ophthalmic artery

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   a branch of the internal carotid artery that supplies the eye and neighboring structures

   Synonymsarteria ophthalmica

   Broaderartery

Questions about ophthalmic artery

What does ophthalmic artery mean?

ophthalmic artery means "a branch of the internal carotid artery that supplies the eye and neighboring structures".

What is another word for ophthalmic artery?

Close synonyms include arteria ophthalmica. 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 ophthalmic artery a common word?

ophthalmic 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.