"Middle Cerebral Artery" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The largest of the cerebral arteries. It trifurcates into temporal, frontal, and parietal branches supplying blood to most of the parenchyma of these lobes in the CEREBRAL CORTEX. These are the areas involved in motor, sensory, and speech activities.
| Descriptor ID |
D020768
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A07.231.114.228.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Middle Cerebral Artery- Middle Cerebral Artery
- Arteries, Middle Cerebral
- Artery, Middle Cerebral
- Cerebral Arteries, Middle
- Middle Cerebral Arteries
- Cerebral Artery, Middle
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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