COMMUNICATING ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does communicating artery mean? 

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

1. any of three arteries in the brain that make up the circle of Willis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUNICATING ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of three arteries in the brain that make up the circle of Willis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria communicans; communicating artery

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

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

Holonyms ("communicating artery" is a part of...):

brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)

 Context examples 

Both left and right anterior cerebral arteries are connected by the anterior communicating artery.

(Anterior Cerebral Artery, NCI Thesaurus)