Superior External Articular Artery

Preferred Label : Superior External Articular Artery;

NCIt definition : A blood vessel arising from the popliteal artery that divides into deep and superficial branches. The deep branch supplies blood to the lower portion of the femur and knee joint while the superficial branch supplies the vastus externus.;

Details

Origin ID

C33673;

UMLS CUI

C1515064;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Vascular System [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Structure of superior lateral genicular artery (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Superior lateral genicular artery [FMA entity]
- superior lateral genicular artery [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]

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