POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does posterior cerebral artery mean? 

• POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY (noun)
  The noun POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY has 1 sense:

1. arises from the basilar artery; divides into three branches

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arises from the basilar artery; divides into three branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("posterior cerebral artery" is a kind of...):

arteria cerebri; cerebral artery (any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex)

 Context examples 

An artery that arises from the posterior cerebral artery and supplies the mid brain.

(Mesencephalic Perforating Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery formed by the union of the two vertebral arteries at the posterior border of the pons then diverges at the anterior border forming the two superior and two posterior cerebral arteries.

(Basilar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The artery formed by the union of the right and left vertebral arteries; it runs from the lower to the upper border of the pons, where it bifurcates into the two posterior cerebral arteries.

(Basilar Artery, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)