HEPATIC ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hepatic artery mean? 

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

1. arteries that supply the liver

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEPATIC ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arteries that supply the liver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria hepatica; hepatic artery

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

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

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

liver (large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes)

 Context examples 

When used in transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) procedures, infusion leads to lodging of the microspheres in the precapillary vessels and, consequently, to the occlusion of the hepatic artery.

(Amilomer, NCI Thesaurus)

It can happen while giving chemotherapy through a catheter in the hepatic artery.

(Hepatic arterial occlusion, NCI Dictionary)

It has three major branches, left gastric artery, common hepatic artery, and splenic artery.

(Celiac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-chemotherapeutic embolization involving the injection of small particles through a catheter in the hepatic artery.

(Bland Embolization, NCI Thesaurus)

Tiny beads that hold the radioisotope yttrium Y 90 are injected into the hepatic artery (the main blood vessel that carries blood to the liver).

(Intra-arterial brachytherapy, NCI Dictionary)

A therapeutic procedure involving the injection or deployment of blocking agents in the hepatic artery to treat tumors.

(Hepatic Artery Embolization, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon infusion into the hepatic artery, oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450 replicates in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells and exerts direct cytotoxic effects eventually disrupting cancer cell membranes and liberating progeny virions thereby infecting adjacent tumor cells.

(Oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450, NCI Thesaurus)

The smallest functional unit of the liver, comprising all of the liver parenchyma supplied by a terminal branch of the portal vein and hepatic artery; typically involves segments of two lobules lying between two terminal hepatic venules.

(Liver Acinus, NCI Thesaurus)

During transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in the hepatic artery, idarubicin-eluting beads embolize to the tumor vasculature, occlude tumor blood vessels and induce ischemic necrosis of tumor tissue due to mechanical blockage of the tumor vasculature.

(Idarubicin-Eluting Beads, NCI Thesaurus)