OVARIAN ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ovarian artery mean? 

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

1. the artery that branches from the aorta and supplies blood to the ovaries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVARIAN ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The artery that branches from the aorta and supplies blood to the ovaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria ovarica; ovarian artery

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

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

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

ovary ((vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone)

 Context examples 

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)