(medicine, cardiology) Any disease caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium.

plural of arterial blood gas

A blood test in which a syringe is used to draw a small blood sample from an artery.

(anatomy) The inner branch of the carotid artery that supplies the brain, eyes, and other internal structures of the head.

plural of posterior cerebral artery

(anatomy) A branch of the ophthalmic artery that passes to the retina in the middle of the optic nerve and branches to form the arterioles of the retina.

(anatomy) A superior artery that arises from the descending palatine artery and sends branches to the soft palate, the palatine glands, the mucous membrane of the hard palate, and the gums.

(anatomy) The part of either carotid artery between its point of origin and its division into the internal and external carotid arteries.

(anatomy) Either of two arterial branches that supply a large muscle on each side of the head involved in raising the lower jaw and that arise from the cerebral artery supplying the deep structures of the face.

(anatomy) An inconstant branch of the thyrocervical trunk or of the subclavian artery that when present supplies or divides into branches supplying the region at the base of the neck and the muscles of the scapula.