CIRCLE OF WILLIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circle of Willis mean? 

• CIRCLE OF WILLIS (noun)
  The noun CIRCLE OF WILLIS has 1 sense:

1. a ring of arteries at the base of the brain

  Familiarity information: CIRCLE OF WILLIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRCLE OF WILLIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ring of arteries at the base of the brain

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("circle of Willis" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("circle of Willis" is a part of...):

brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)