RENAL ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renal artery mean? 

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

1. an artery originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys and adrenal glands and ureters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artery originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys and adrenal glands and ureters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria renalis; renal artery

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

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

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

kidney (either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine)

 Context examples 

A vein that drains blood from the left adrenal gland into the left renal artery.

(Left Suprarenal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel arising from the renal artery that supplies blood to the suprarenal gland and ureter.

(Inferior Suprarenal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

It most often affects the renal artery and less often the carotid artery and abdominal arteries.

(Fibromuscular Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

The concave area of the kidney through which the renal artery enters and the renal vein and ureter exit the organ.

(Hilar Area of the Kidney, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the abdominal aorta, below the renal artery, that supplies the left testicle.

(Left Spermatic Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

This includes the mesenteric arteries, the renal arteries and the aorta.

(Peripheral Arterial Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This includes the mesenteric arteries, the renal arteries and the aorta and excludes cerebrovascular arterial disease.

(Peripheral Arterial Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

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)