Any of the arteries that arise from a bifurcation of the aorta supplying the pelvic or abdomen. Examples: Common iliac artery, External iliac artery, Internal iliac artery. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliac_artery https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Term information
- XAO:0000361
- SCTID:244330006
- RETIRED_EHDAA2:0000807
- galen:IliacArtery
- EHDAA:2551
- BTO:0004665
- Wikipedia:Iliac_artery
- MESH:D007083
- UMLS:C0020887 (ncithesaurus:Iliac_Artery)
- EMAPA:17309
- NCIT:C12733
- MA:0001971
grouping_class
this is an extremely loose and flexible grouping class that is the superclass of the mammalian common iliac and its main brahces, together with analagous structures in other tetrapods
we place the XAO structure here for now. In terms of analagy, it is more closely related to common iliac, but the relationships currently attached to this class are mammal specific