posterior meningeal artery

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   branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery that supplies the dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa

   Broadermeningeal artery

Questions about posterior meningeal artery

What does posterior meningeal artery mean?

posterior meningeal artery means "branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery that supplies the dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa".

Is posterior meningeal artery a common word?

posterior meningeal 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.