radial artery

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   branch of the brachial artery beginning below the elbow and extending down the forearm around the wrist and into the palm

   Synonymsarteria radialis

   Broaderartery

Questions about radial artery

What does radial artery mean?

radial artery means "branch of the brachial artery beginning below the elbow and extending down the forearm around the wrist and into the palm".

What is another word for radial artery?

Close synonyms include arteria radialis. 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 radial artery a common word?

radial 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.