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Preferred Name

Superior Thyroid Artery

Synonyms

Superior Thyroid Artery

Definitions

An artery that is the first branch of the external carotid artery that supplies the upper thyroid gland and its muscles and branches to form the crico-thyroid, hyoid, sterno-mastoid and superior laryngeal arteries.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C53021

code

C53021

DEFINITION

An artery that is the first branch of the external carotid artery that supplies the upper thyroid gland and its muscles and branches to form the crico-thyroid, hyoid, sterno-mastoid and superior laryngeal arteries.

FULL_SYN

Superior Thyroid Artery

label

Superior Thyroid Artery

Legacy Concept Name

Superior_Thyroid_Artery

Preferred_Name

Superior Thyroid Artery

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C53021

Semantic_Type

Anatomical Structure

UMLS_CUI

C0226093

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C32552

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C53020

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