Definitions for "Renal artery"
"Renal" means "kidney." An artery is a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart. So the renal artery carries blood away from the heart to the kidney.
Artery which originates from the abdominal aorta and provided branches for the ureters and the inferior adrenal (suprarenal) artery. image
The main blood vessel that supplies blood to a kidney and its nearby adrenal gland and ureter. There is a renal artery for each kidney.