posterior cerebral artery

Preferred Label : posterior cerebral artery;

Uberon definition : The posterior cerebral artery (PCA) is one of a pair of blood vessels that supplies oxygenated blood to the posterior aspect of the brain in human anatomy]. It arises near the intersection of the posterior communicating artery and the basilar artery and connects with the ipsilateral middle cerebral artery (MCA) and internal carotid artery via the posterior communicating artery (PCommA). [WP,unvetted].;

Details

Origin ID

0001636;

UMLS CUI

C0149576;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Entire posterior cerebral artery (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Posterior Cerebral Artery [NCIt concept]
- Posterior cerebral artery [FMA entity]
- Posterior cerebral artery [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Structure of posterior cerebral artery (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- posterior cerebral artery [Radlex concept]
- posterior cerebral artery [MeSH Descriptor]
- posterior cerebral artery [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Posterior Cerebral Artery [NCIt concept]
- Posterior cerebral artery [FMA entity]
- Posterior cerebral artery [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Structure of posterior cerebral artery (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- posterior cerebral artery [MeSH concept]
- posterior cerebral artery [MeSH Descriptor]
- posterior cerebral artery [Radlex concept]
- posterior cerebral artery, nos [SNOMED Notion]
Uberon cross reference
- Entire posterior cerebral artery (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Posterior Cerebral Artery [NCIt concept]
- Posterior cerebral artery [FMA entity]
has branching part
- branch of posterior cerebral artery [UBERON concept]
has part
- branch of posterior cerebral artery [UBERON concept]
in lateral side of
- basilar artery [UBERON concept]
supplies
- occipital lobe [UBERON concept]

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