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Descriptor English: Basilar Artery
Descriptor Spanish: Arteria Basilar
Descriptor arteria basilar
Scope note: Arteria formada por la unión de las arterias vertebrales izquierda y derecha, que se extiende desde el borde inferior al borde superior del puente, donde se bifurca para formar sendas arterias cerebrales posteriores.
Descriptor Portuguese: Artéria Basilar
Descriptor French: Artère basilaire
Entry term(s): Arteries, Basilar
Artery, Basilar
Basilar Arteries
Tree number(s): A07.015.114.106
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001488
Scope note: The artery formed by the union of the right and left vertebral arteries; it runs from the lower to the upper border of the pons, where it bifurcates into the two posterior cerebral arteries.
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
DeCS ID: 1510
Unique ID: D001488
NLM Classification: WG 595.B2
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/30
Basilar Artery - Preferred
Concept UI M0002218
Scope note The artery formed by the union of the right and left vertebral arteries; it runs from the lower to the upper border of the pons, where it bifurcates into the two posterior cerebral arteries.
Preferred term Basilar Artery
Entry term(s) Arteries, Basilar
Artery, Basilar
Basilar Arteries



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