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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 neckplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CERVICAL ARTERY (noun)


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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