ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anterior cerebral artery mean? 

• ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY (noun)
  The noun ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY has 1 sense:

1. one of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into two branches that serve (1) the thalamus and (2) parts of the frontal and parietal cortex

  Familiarity information: ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into two branches that serve (1) the thalamus and (2) parts of the frontal and parietal cortex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("anterior cerebral artery" is a kind of...):

arteria cerebri; cerebral artery (any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex)

 Context examples 

An artery branching from the anterior cerebral artery that supplies the medial portions of the frontal and superior parietal lobes.

(Medial Orbitofrontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminal branch of the anterior cerebral artery that runs in the pericallosal sulcus and branches to form the inferior and superior internal parietal arteries and precuneal artery supplying the cerebral cortex.

(Pericallosal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the A2 segment of the anterior cerebral artery that supplies the corpus callosum.

(Frontopolar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery that joins the two anterior cerebral arteries.

(Anterior Communicating Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Branches of the anterior cerebral artery supply the CAUDATE NUCLEUS, INTERNAL CAPSULE, PUTAMEN, SEPTAL NUCLEI, GYRUS CINGULI, and surfaces of the FRONTAL LOBE and PARIETAL LOBE.

(Anterior Cerebral Artery, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An arterial branch arising from the anterior cerebral artery.

(Anterior Cerebral Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

Both left and right anterior cerebral arteries are connected by the anterior communicating artery.

(Anterior Cerebral Artery, NCI Thesaurus)