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Basilar Artery

"Basilar 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.

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The artery formed by the union of the right and left vertebral arteries; it runs from the lower to the upper border of the pons, where it bifurcates into the two posterior cerebral arteries.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Basilar Artery" by people in this website by year, and whether "Basilar Artery" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2001 and 2005 and 2008
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