ulnar artery

1. 1.

   large artery that branches from the brachial artery to supply the muscles of the forearm and wrist and hand

   Synonymsarteria ulnaris

   Broaderartery

Questions about ulnar artery

What does ulnar artery mean?

ulnar artery means "large artery that branches from the brachial artery to supply the muscles of the forearm and wrist and hand".

What is another word for ulnar artery?

Close synonyms include arteria ulnaris. 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 ulnar artery a common word?

ulnar 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.