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Middle Cerebral Artery

"Middle Cerebral Artery" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Middle Cerebral Artery" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Middle Cerebral Artery" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 152 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.