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CERVICAL ARTERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cervical artery mean?
• CERVICAL ARTERY (noun)
The noun CERVICAL ARTERY has 1 sense:
1. an artery that supplies the muscles of the neck
Familiarity information: CERVICAL ARTERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An artery that supplies the muscles of the neck
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
areteria cervicalis; cervical artery
Hypernyms ("cervical artery" is a kind of...):
arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)
Holonyms ("cervical artery" is a part of...):
cervix; neck (the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body)
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