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posterior cerebral artery

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001636


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]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_cerebral_artery ]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Circle_of_Willis_en.svg

has related synonym

arteria cerebri posterior

id

UBERON:0001636

prefLabel

Posterior cerebral artery

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606