perineal artery

1. 1.

   a branch of the internal pudendal artery that supplies superficial structures of the perineum

   Synonymsarteria perinealis

   Broaderartery

Questions about perineal artery

What does perineal artery mean?

perineal artery means "a branch of the internal pudendal artery that supplies superficial structures of the perineum".

What is another word for perineal artery?

Close synonyms include arteria perinealis. 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 perineal artery a common word?

perineal 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.