palatine artery

1. 1.

   one of several arteries supplying the face

   Synonymsarteria palatina

   Broaderartery

Questions about palatine artery

What does palatine artery mean?

palatine artery means "one of several arteries supplying the face".

What is another word for palatine artery?

Close synonyms include arteria palatina. 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 palatine artery a common word?

palatine 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.