PUDENDAL ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pudendal artery mean? 

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

1. arteries supplying the external genital organs of humans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUDENDAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arteries supplying the external genital organs of humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria pudenda; pudendal artery

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

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

 Context examples 

An artery arising from the internal pudendal artery that supplies the bulbocavernosus and ischiocavernosus muscles of the perineum.

(Perineal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)