DIGITAL ARTERIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digital arteries mean? 

• DIGITAL ARTERIES (noun)
  The noun DIGITAL ARTERIES has 1 sense:

1. arteries in the hand and foot that supply the fingers and toes

  Familiarity information: DIGITAL ARTERIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGITAL ARTERIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arteries in the hand and foot that supply the fingers and toes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria digitalis; digital arteries

Hypernyms ("digital arteries" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("digital arteries" is a part of...):

foot; human foot; pes (the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint)

hand; manus; mitt; paw (the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb)

 Context examples 

Three arteries arising from the superficial palmar arch which run distally on the second, third and fourth lumbricals muscles to the interdigital clefts where each artery then separates into two proper palmar digital arteries.

(Common Palmar Digital Artery, NCI Thesaurus)