circle of Willis

circulatory anastomosis that supplies blood to the brain and surrounding structures
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circle of Willis

Summary

circle of Willis is an artery[1]. It ranks in the top 0.7% of artery entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (377 views/month, #2 of 286).[2]

Key Facts

  • circle of Willis's image is recorded as Circle of Willis en.svg[3].
  • circle of Willis's instance of is recorded as artery[4].
  • circle of Willis's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[5].
  • circle of Willis's subclass of is recorded as systemic artery[6].
  • circle of Willis's subclass of is recorded as particular anatomical entity[7].
  • circle of Willis's Commons category is recorded as Circle of Willis[8].
  • circle of Willis's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D002941[9].
  • circle of Willis's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01kdhq[10].
  • circle of Willis's MeSH tree code is recorded as A07.015.114.228.351[11].
  • circle of Willis's Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID is recorded as A12.2.07.080[12].
  • circle of Willis's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[13].
  • circle of Willis's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 50454[14].
  • circle of Willis's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/circle-of-Willis[15].
  • circle of Willis's UBERON ID is recorded as 0003709[16].
  • circle of Willis's BBC Things ID is recorded as 0859b3c4-7ade-46b7-9e10-85264b005c80[17].
  • circle of Willis's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0008812[18].
  • circle of Willis's has anatomical branch is recorded as anterior communicating artery[19].
  • circle of Willis's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as circle-of-willis[20].
  • circle of Willis's TA98 Latin term is recorded as circulus arteriosus cerebri[21].
  • circle of Willis's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780944724[22].
  • circle of Willis's TA2 ID is recorded as 4516[23].
  • circle of Willis's KBpedia ID is recorded as CircleOfWillis[24].
  • circle of Willis's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2780944724[25].

Why It Matters

circle of Willis ranks in the top 0.7% of artery entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (377 views/month, #2 of 286).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . unifr.ch. unifr.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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