CEREBELLAR ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebellar artery mean? 

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

1. an artery that supplies the cerebellum

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBELLAR ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artery that supplies the cerebellum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria cerebelli; cerebellar artery

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cerebellar artery"):

inferior cerebellar artery (the inferior branch of the cerebellar artery)

superior cerebellar artery (the superior branch of the cerebellar artery)

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

cerebellum (a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans)

 Context examples 

A syndrome caused by an infarct in the vertebral or posterior inferior cerebellar artery.

(Lateral Medullary Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel that is the terminal branch of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery supplying the inferior vermis.

(Inferior Vermian Artery, NCI Thesaurus)