INTERCOSTAL ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intercostal artery mean? 

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

1. several arteries and supplying the intercostal spaces of the rib cage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERCOSTAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Several arteries and supplying the intercostal spaces of the rib cage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria intercostalis; intercostal artery

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

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

 Context examples 

Either of three arteries (posterior or dorsal branch, collateral intercostal and spinal) that branch off of the intercostal artery.

(Intercostal Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

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)