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artery

any of the tubular thick-walled muscular vessels that convey oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body

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artery

[′ärd·ə·rē]

(anatomy)

A vascular tube that carries blood away from the heart.

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The Inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) gave rise to few sigmoidal arteries and the IMA continued as superior rectal artery (Fig 4).

A very rare variation of the superior mesenteric artery--a case report

Concerning the caudal mesenteric artery, which bifurcates into a left colic artery and a cranial rectal artery, the findings by Barone et al.; Orsi et al.; Habel & Stromberg and Nayar et al., respectively, in rabbit, hamster and rat are confirmed.

Study on cranial and caudal mesenteric arteries in opossum (Didelphis albiventris)/Estudio de las arterias mesentericas craneal y caudal del zorrillo (Didelphis albiventris)

Double ligation was conducted at the superior rectal artery root and the root of the inferior mesenteric artery was not ligated regularly.

Prevention of anastomotic fistula formation after low-position Dixon Operation

Arteries primarily embolized were the gastroduodenal artery (n = 36) Figure 1, ileocolic artery (n = 28) Figure 2, right colic artery (n = 12), jejunal branches of superior mesenteric artery (n = 10), left gastric artery (n = 9), superior rectal artery (n = 7), ileal braches of superior mesenteric artery (n = 5), left colic artery (n = 4), and middle colic artery (n = 1).

Treatment of nonvariceal gastrointestinal hemorrhage by transcatheter embolization