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CEREBELLAR ARTERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebellar artery mean?
• CEREBELLAR ARTERY (noun)
The noun CEREBELLAR ARTERY has 1 sense:
1. an artery that supplies the cerebellum
Familiarity information: CEREBELLAR ARTERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An artery that supplies the cerebellum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
arteria cerebelli; cerebellar artery
Hypernyms ("cerebellar artery" is a kind of...):
arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cerebellar artery"):
inferior cerebellar artery (the inferior branch of the cerebellar artery)
superior cerebellar artery (the superior branch of the cerebellar artery)
Holonyms ("cerebellar artery" is a part of...):
cerebellum (a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans)
Context examples
A syndrome caused by an infarct in the vertebral or posterior inferior cerebellar artery.
(Lateral Medullary Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
A blood vessel that is the terminal branch of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery supplying the inferior vermis.
(Inferior Vermian Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
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