pancreatic artery

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   a branch of the splenic artery that supplies the pancreas

   Synonymsarteria pancreatica

   Broaderartery

Questions about pancreatic artery

What does pancreatic artery mean?

pancreatic artery means "a branch of the splenic artery that supplies the pancreas".

What is another word for pancreatic artery?

Close synonyms include arteria pancreatica. 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 pancreatic artery a common word?

pancreatic 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.