arcuate

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The arcuate “bow shaped” arteries form arcs along the base of the medullary pyramids.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The interlobar arteries split at the junction of the renal cortex and medulla to form the arcuate arteries.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Connecting Broca’s area with Wernicke’s is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

This is an image showing a 3D-printed reconstruction of the white matter pathway connecting two areas of the human brain - the arcuate fasciculus.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2017

The sympathetic nerves usually enter the abdomen behind the internal arcuate ligaments.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various