Definition of Arteria communicans

1. Noun. Any of three arteries in the brain that make up the circle of Willis.

Exact synonyms: Communicating Artery
Generic synonyms: Arteria, Arterial Blood Vessel, Artery
Group relationships: Brain, Encephalon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arteria Communicans

arteria circumflexa iliaca superficialis
arteria circumflexa ilium
arteria circumflexa scapulae
arteria coeliaca
arteria colica
arteria colica dextra
arteria colica media
arteria colica sinistra
arteria collateralis media
arteria collateralis radialis
arteria collateralis ulnaris inferior
arteria collateralis ulnaris superior
arteria comes nervi phrenici
arteria comitans nervi ischiadici
arteria comitans nervi mediani
arteria communicans (current term)
arteria communicans anterior
arteria communicans posterior
arteria conjunctivalis anterior
arteria conjunctivalis posterior
arteria coronaria
arteria coronaria dextra
arteria coronaria sinistra
arteria cystica
arteria digitalis
arteria digitalis dorsalis
arteria digitalis palmaris communis
arteria digitalis palmaris propria

Literary usage of Arteria communicans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Engravings of the Arteries: Illustrating the Second Volume of the Anatomy of by Charles Bell (1811)
"Arteria Temporalis. Arteria Anterior Cerebri. Arteria Media Cerebri. Arteria Communicans. * On the left side there is a high bifurcation of the artery. ..."

2. A Manual of Examinations: Upon Anatomy, Physiology, Surgery, Practice of by John Livingston Ludlow (1867)
"The anterior cerebri coining off opposite the last, advancing in front of the optic nerves, when we have the arteria communicans anterior. ..."

3. The Anatomy of the Central Nervous Organs in Health and Disease by Heinrich Obersteiner (1890)
"... conies off a usually rather narrow vessel, arteria communicans posterior, Cup, which passes backwards towards the posterior cerebral which it joins at a ..."

4. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"arteria communicans. The COMMUNICATING ARTERY goes as directly backwards from the middle artery as the anterior artery goes forwards. ..."

5. Anleitung beim Studium des Baues der nervösen Centralorgane im gesunden und by Heinrich Obersteiner (1901)
"Die arteria communicans anterior kann doppelt oder dreifach sein oder aber in der Weise fehlen, dass beide Arteriae cerebri anteriores eine Strecke weit ..."

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