posterior temporal artery

1. 1.

   temporal artery that supplies the posterior part of the cortex of the temporal lobe

   Synonymsarteria temporalis posterior

   Broadertemporal artery

Questions about posterior temporal artery

What does posterior temporal artery mean?

posterior temporal artery means "temporal artery that supplies the posterior part of the cortex of the temporal lobe".

What is another word for posterior temporal artery?

Close synonyms include arteria temporalis posterior. 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 posterior temporal artery a common word?

posterior temporal 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.