EPIGASTRIC ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epigastric artery mean? 

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

1. one of three arteries supplying the anterior walls of the abdomen

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPIGASTRIC ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of three arteries supplying the anterior walls of the abdomen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria epigastrica; epigastric artery

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

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

 Context examples 

A blood vessel arising from the external iliac artery with many smaller branches that connects to the superior epigastric artery and lower intercostal arteries.

(Inferior Epigastric Artery, NCI Thesaurus)