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Ascending artery

Ascending artery

(Science: anatomy, artery) The branch of the inferior branch of the ileocolic artery that passes superiorly up the ascending colon to communicate with a branch of the right colic artery and supplying the ascending colon.

Synonym: arteria ascendens.


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