uterine artery

1. 1.

   a branch of the internal iliac artery that supplies the uterus and the upper part of the vagina

   Synonymsarteria uterina

   Broaderartery

   Part ofuterus

Questions about uterine artery

What does uterine artery mean?

uterine artery means "a branch of the internal iliac artery that supplies the uterus and the upper part of the vagina".

What is another word for uterine artery?

Close synonyms include arteria uterina. 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 uterine artery a common word?

uterine 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.