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CIRCLE OF WILLIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ring of arteries at the base of the brain
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("circle of Willis" is a kind of...):
arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)
Holonyms ("circle of Willis" is a part of...):
brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)
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