Definition of Cerebral artery

1. Noun. Any of the arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerebral Artery

cerebra
cerebral
cerebral agraphia
cerebral amyloid angiopathy
cerebral amyloidosis
cerebral aneurysm
cerebral angiography
cerebral anoxia
cerebral anthrax
cerebral aqueduct
cerebral aqueducts
cerebral arterial circle
cerebral arteries
cerebral arteriography
cerebral arteriovenous malformations
cerebral artery (current term)
cerebral calculus
cerebral cladosporiosis
cerebral compression
cerebral contusion
cerebral cortex
cerebral cortexes
cerebral cortices
cerebral death
cerebral decompression
cerebral decortication
cerebral dominance
cerebral dysplasia
cerebral edema
cerebral edemas

Literary usage of Cerebral artery

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

1. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"All the convolutions of the parietal lobe are usually supplied by the middle cerebral artery. Occipital lobe.—This lobe is supplied entirely by the ..."

2. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... rudiment of brain i-anstrengung, /. cerebral or ital strain i-armut, /. want or ill-develop- it of brain i-arterie, /. a cerebral artery ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"commencement of the anterior cerebral artery ; they pierce the anterior ... The branches of the middle cerebral artery are— Antero-lateral Ganglionic. ..."

4. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"In anterior cerebral artery strokes, sensory deficits are usually absent and motor ... In posterior cerebral artery strokes, both sensation and motor ..."

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