choroidal artery

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Noun1.choroidal artery - an artery that supplies the choroid plexus
arteria, arterial blood vessel, artery - a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
choroid plexus, plexus choroideus - a vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate intraventricular pressure
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The terminal segment of each internal carotid artery gave off the caudal communicating artery, the rostral cerebral artery, the middle cerebral artery, and the rostral choroidal artery.
The main branches of the internal carotid artery system in the brain are the ophthalmic artery, the anterior cerebral artery, the middle cerebral artery, the anterior choroidal artery, and the posterior communicating artery.
The V7 portion of the ICA also bifurcates into the anterior choroidal artery and the posterior communicating artery [9, 29].
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