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cerebral arterial circle

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circle

 [ser´k'l]
a round figure, structure, or part.
Berry's c's charts with circles on them for testing stereoscopic vision.
cerebral arterial circle circle of Willis.
Minsky's circle a device for the graphic recording of eye lesions.
sensory circle a body area within which it is impossible to distinguish separately the impressions arising from two sites of stimulation.
circle of Willis the anastomotic loop of blood vessels near the base of the brain. Called also cerebral arterial circle.
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ce·re·bral ar·te·ri·al cir·cle

[TA]
the roughly pentagonally shaped circle of vessels on the ventral aspect of the brain in the area of the optic chiasm, hypothalamus, and interpeduncular fossa; formed, sequentially and in an anterior to posterior direction, by the anterior communicating artery and by the two anterior cerebral, the two internal carotid, the two posterior communicating, and proximal segments of the two posterior cerebral arteries.
Synonym(s): circulus arteriosus cerebri [TA], arterial circle of cerebrum, circle of Willis
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There was no significant association with any variant of the AComA and any other anatomical variant in the anterior circulation of the cerebral arterial circle in the same patient.
The presence of anatomic variants characterized by the lack of collateral circulation increase the risk of ischemic events and a correlation between some anatomical variants of the cerebral arterial circle and the development of aneurysms lias been established (Dimmick & Faulder; Li et al.: Klimek-Piotrowska et al, 2013; Yi et al, 2016).
Anatomical Variants of Anterior Cerebral Arterial Circle. A Study by Multidetector Computerized 3D Tomographic Angiography/Variantes Anatomicas de la Region Anterior del Circulo Arterial Cerebral. Estudio por Angiotomografia Computarizada 3D
KEY WORDS: Anterior communicating artery; Anterior cerebral artery; Cerebral arterial circle; Cephalix index.
Analisis biometrico de las arterias comunicante anterior y cerebral anterior en el segmento precomunicante del circulo arterial cerebral
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