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Definition of Nutrient artery
1. Noun. An artery that supplies the medullary cavity of the long bone.
Medical Definition of Nutrient artery
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutrient Artery
Literary usage of Nutrient artery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The superior profunda supplies the Triceps muscle and gives off a nutrient artery
which enters the bone at the upper end of the musculo- spiral groove. ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"the nutrient artery). The blood supply of the bone comes also from nutrient
arteries which generally enter the medullary cavity by a hole running obliquely ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1842)
"Trans, xx,) that in fractures of the long bones, the portion below the entrance
of the nutrient artery becomes gradually atrophied, being supplied only by ..."
4. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"The nutrient artery (a. nutricia fibulae) supplies the fibula, and is directed
downward. The Perforating Branch (ramus perforans; anterior peroneal artery} ..."
5. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"It often gives off a nutrient artery or arteries to the upper end of the ...
The nutrient artery is given off variably from the brachial or one of its ..."
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