Artery - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈɑːrtərɪ|
Brit.
|ˈɑːtərɪ|
noun
- a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
- a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
- a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
Extra examples
He favors local side roads over major arteries.
...there's an accident on the main artery into town, so I'll be late...
...a blood clot had occluded a major artery in his body...
...you should press against the artery in your wrist and count the pulsations to calculate your heart rate...
The pulmonary artery and vein pass along the surfaces of these air bladders.
A stent is a wire metal mesh tube used to prop open an artery during angioplasty.
Word forms
noun
singular: artery
plural: arteries
singular: artery
plural: arteries
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