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anterior spinal artery

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A blood vessel that supplies the anterior portion of the spinal cord. It arises from branches of the vertebral arteries and is supplied by the anterior segmental medullary arteries, including the artery of Adamkiewicz, and courses along the anterior aspect of the spinal cord. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_spinal_artery ]

Synonyms: ventral spinal artery, anterior medial spinal artery

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Anterior_spinal_cord_-_very_low_mag.jpg

has related synonym

anterior spinal arteries, arteria spinalis anterior, ventral artery of the spinal cord

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UBERON:0005431

prefLabel

Anterior spinal artery

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606