NOUN
- an unpaired artery; supplies the pons and cerebellum and the back part of the cerebrum and the inner ear
How To Use basilar artery In A Sentence
- He was subsequently quoted as saying that only the clogging of his basilar artery is preventing the oxygen from making it to his brain. NFL Picks Week 17: Feschuk v. Reid – who will be the least most completely incompetent? - Can't Miss NFL Picks and Other Lies, Feschuk on the Famous, Sports Blog - Macleans.ca
- Many arterial branches arise from the vertebral and basilar artery to supply the medulla oblongata and the pons.
- The ischemic range induced by ligation of the different parts of the basilar artery trunk overlapped, mainly locating in the medulla rostral to the obex .
- The main influential factors on surgical results were whether presence of encasement of the basilar artery and its branches and of the arachnoidal cleavage plane between the tumor and the brain stem.
- One day she throws a clot, it lodges in her basilar artery, and for seventeen crucial minutes the brain is denied blood. DO NO HARM
- After giving off pontine and other branches, the basilar artery divides into two posterior cerebral arteries at the upper border of the pons.
- The organ was then suspended, by means of a ligature placed around the basilar artery, in a vessel containing 10% formaldehyde solution.
- The largest branch of the vertebral leaves before the junction of the vertebrals to form the basilar artery.
- Approximately 20 percent of patients had internal carotid, vertebral, or basilar artery lesions, and 6 percent had multiple lesions.
- The large basilar artery is formed at the lower border of the pons by the union of the two vertebral arteries.
