Definition of 'artery'
Word forms: plural arteries
1. countable noun
2. countable noun
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noun plural -teries
1.
any of the tubular thick-walled muscular vessels that convey oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body
Compare pulmonary artery, vein2.
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Word origin of 'artery'
C14: from Latin artēria, related to Greek aortē the great artery, aorta nounWord forms: plural ˈarteries
1.
any one of the system of thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
see also vein, capillary2.
a main road or channel
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Word origin of 'artery'
ME arterie < L arteria, windpipe, artery < Gr artēria, prob. < aeirein, to lift, take upExample sentences containing 'artery'
Coping with Angina (1990) Beat Stress (1992) The Sun (2014)
Yet the backroom staff are the blood in the arteries of the system.
Times, Sunday Times (2009) Times, Sunday Times (2009) The Sun (2014)Blood flows from the heart to the periphery of the body in arteries.
How to Lower High Blood Pressure (1994) Preventing Heart Disease (1987) The Sun (2008) BMA Family Doctor Guide - Heart Disease (1989) The Sun (2009)These arteries supply the heart muscles with blood.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)The pellets missed major arteries by millimetres.
The Sun (2014) Times, Sunday Times (2006) The Sun (2012) The Sun (2014)But at the same time it causes the arteries that carry blood to the heart to close.
The Sun (2010)Does it only help clogged arteries in the heart?
The Sun (2013) Times, Sunday Times (2012)This road is one of the country's main arteries.
Times, Sunday Times (2007) Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born (1995)Secondly, certain other patients have a narrowing of a particularly important coronary artery or combination of coronary arteries.
Coping with Angina (1990)It seems to make sense that thin blood slides through the narrowed and blocked arteries of the body more easily than so-called thick blood.
Living with Angina (1991) America Past and Present (1995)America's transportation arteries are so important to the economy that either road or rail industries have stood atop the pinnacle of business production over the past century.
Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century (1994)Word Lists
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Translations for 'artery'
British English: artery /ˈɑːtərɪ/
NOUN
Your arteries are the tubes that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body....patients suffering from blocked arteries.
Your arteries are the tubes that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body....patients suffering from blocked arteries.
- Arabic: شِرْيان
- Brazilian Portuguese: artéria
- Chinese: 动脉
- Croatian: arterija
- Czech: tepna
- Danish: arterie
- Dutch: slagader
- European Spanish: arteria
- Finnish: valtimo
- French: artère
- German: Arterie
- Greek: αρτηρία
- Italian: arteria
- Japanese: 動脈
- Korean: 동맥
- Norwegian: pulsåre
- Polish: tętnica
- Portuguese: artéria
- Romanian: arteră artere
- Russian: артерия
- Spanish: arteria
- Swedish: pulsåder
- Thai: เส้นเลือดแดงที่นำเลือดแดงออกจากหัวใจ
- Turkish: atardamar
- Ukrainian: артерія
- Vietnamese: động mạch
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