CEREBRAL ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral artery mean? 

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

1. any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria cerebri; cerebral artery

Hypernyms ("cerebral 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 "cerebral artery"):

anterior cerebral artery (one of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into two branches that serve (1) the thalamus and (2) parts of the frontal and parietal cortex)

middle cerebral artery (one of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into three branches)

posterior cerebral artery (arises from the basilar artery; divides into three branches)

temporal artery (any of the three arteries on either side of the brain supplying the cortex of the temporal lobe)

 Context examples 

Constriction of cerebral blood vessels caused by this agent may reduce the blood flow and pressure in cerebral arteries and may relieve the pain of vascular headaches.

(Ergotamine Tartrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Nimodipine has a greater effect on cerebral arteries than on peripheral smooth muscle cells and myocardial cells, probably because this agent can cross the blood brain barrier due to its lipophilic nature.

(Nimodipine, NCI Thesaurus)

Isometheptene is an indirect-acting sympathomimetic agent with vasoconstricting activity, thereby reducing the pulsation in cerebral arteries by constricting dilated cerebral blood vessels.

(Isometheptene/Dichloralphenazone/Acetaminophen, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Mesencephalic Perforating Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The largest and most complex of the cerebral arteries.

(Middle Cerebral Artery, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any artery arising from the middle cerebral artery.

(Middle Cerebral Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

An ischemic condition of the brain, producing a persistent focal neurological deficit in the area of distribution of the cerebral arteries.

(Cerebral Infarction, NCI Thesaurus)

A branch of the middle cerebral artery that supplies blood to the anterior part of the temporal lobe.

(Anterior Temporal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery, which originates in either the internal carotid artery or the middle cerebral artery, that delivers blood to the choroid plexus.

(Anterior Choroidal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery branching from the extremity of the middle cerebral artery that supplies the lateral cortex and inferior frontal lobe.

(Lateral Orbitofrontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)