COMMON ILIAC ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common iliac artery mean? 

• COMMON ILIAC ARTERY (noun)
  The noun COMMON ILIAC ARTERY has 1 sense:

1. terminal branches of the abdominal aorta

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON ILIAC ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terminal branches of the abdominal aorta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("common iliac artery" is a kind of...):

arteria iliaca; iliac artery (one of the large arteries supplying blood to the pelvis and legs)

 Context examples 

An artery arising from the bifurcation of the common iliac artery in the lower torso.

(External Iliac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A short thick blood vessel arising from the bifurcation of the common iliac artery with numerous branches that supply the organs, walls and viscera of the pelvis as well as the inner thigh.

(Internal Iliac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The common iliac artery situated on the left side of the body.

(Left Common Iliac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A lymph node located adjacent to the common iliac artery.

(Common Iliac Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)

Any artery arising from the common iliac artery.

(Common Iliac Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

The portion of the descending aorta that lies within the abdomen, beginning below the diaphragm and ending at its division into the right and left common iliac arteries.

(Abdominal Aorta, 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)

The major arterial trunk that carries oxygenated blood from the left ventricle into the ascending aorta behind the heart, the aortic arch, through the thorax as the descending aorta and through the abdomen as the abdominal aorta; it bifurcates into the left and right common iliac arteries.

(Aorta, NCI Thesaurus)