TEMPORAL ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does temporal artery mean? 

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

1. any of the three arteries on either side of the brain supplying the cortex of the temporal lobe

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPORAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the three arteries on either side of the brain supplying the cortex of the temporal lobe

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Nouns denoting body parts

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

arteria cerebri; cerebral artery (any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "temporal artery"):

anterior temporal artery; arteria temporalis anterior (temporal artery that goes to the anterior part of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe)

arteria temporalis intermedia; intermediate temporal artery (temporal artery that goes to the middle part of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe)

arteria temporalis posterior; posterior temporal artery (temporal artery that supplies the posterior part of the cortex of the temporal lobe)

 Context examples 

Removal of a portion of the temporal artery for microscopic examination.

(Biopsy of Temporal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)