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Medical Definition of interlobar artery
: any of various secondary branches of the renal arteries that pass between the Malpighian pyramids and branch to form the arcuate arteries
The interlobar arteries run toward the cortex on each side of the renal pyramid.— Richard S. Snell, Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 2008
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