CELIAC ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does celiac artery mean? 

• CELIAC ARTERY (noun)
  The noun CELIAC ARTERY has 1 sense:

1. an artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELIAC ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria celiaca; celiac artery; celiac trunk; truncus celiacus

Hypernyms ("celiac artery" is a kind of...):

arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

 Context examples 

A lymph node at the base of the celiac artery.

(Celiac Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)

The aortic branches include terminal branches called the common iliac arteries, the celiac artery, the superior mesenteric artery, the inferior mesenteric artery, the renal arteries, the suprarenal arteries, the testicular (internal spermatic) arteries, the ovarian arteries, the inferior phrenic arteries, lumbar arteries and the middle sacral artery.

(Abdominal Aorta Branch, NCI Thesaurus)