LUMBAR ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lumbar artery mean? 

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

1. one of four or five pairs of arteries that originate in the abdominal aorta and supply the lumbar vertebrae and the back muscles and abdominal wall

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUMBAR ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four or five pairs of arteries that originate in the abdominal aorta and supply the lumbar vertebrae and the back muscles and abdominal wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria lumbalis; lumbar artery

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

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

 Context examples 

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)