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MENINGEAL ARTERY

Dictionary entry overview: What does meningeal artery mean?

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

1. any of three arteries supplying the meninges of the brain and neighboring structures

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

Dictionary entry details

• MENINGEAL ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of three arteries supplying the meninges of the brain and neighboring structures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria meningea; meningeal artery

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

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

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

anterior meningeal artery (branch of the anterior ethmoidal artery that supplies meninges in the anterior cranial fossa)

middle meningeal artery (branch of the maxillary artery; its branches supply meninges)

posterior meningeal artery (branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery that supplies the dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa)

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