arterial

artery | American Dictionary

artery
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɑr·t̬ə·ri/

arterynoun[C] (TUBE)

biology
one of the larger tubes that carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body

arterynoun[C] (ROAD)

an important road, river, or other transportation route

Examples of artery

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A new approach to "anatomic" repair of transposition of the great arteries.
Furthermore, the unknown vasodilator may flow to the systemic arteries without metabolization, and may induce systemic fistulas in similar fashion.
The aorta was 2.5 cm in diameter and its branches, along with the coronary arteries, were normal.
Retrospective review of the cases using these criteria identified 26 of the 27 intramural arteries with no false positive diagnoses.
One patient had 2 major aortopulmonary collateral arteries and required collateral ligation at the same time.
All patients had coronary changes, and six patients had giant aneurysms and severe stenotic lesions in each coronary arteries.
In such patients, the inflated balloon may compress the tunnel and compromise the flow of blood into the coronary arteries.
In both normal and defective hearts, however, the arterial duct is smaller than both the left and right pulmonary arteries.
Such analysis should in future improve our understanding of the fate of the pulmonary arteries following the bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis.
In preeclampsia, an inadequate placental trophoblast invasion of the maternal uterine spiral arteries results in poor placental perfusion, leading to placental ischaemia.
Other investigators have noted analogous findings in the mesenteric arteries from other animals.
Chronic constriction of the infrarenal aorta or of the uterine arteries themselves most consistently raised blood pressure.
Reduced invasion will leave the spiral arteries vasoreactive, and thus more likely to undergo spontaneous transient vasoconstriction.
Fundamental to this is the extent and depth of trophoblast invasion into uterine arteries in the early weeks of pregnancy.
The inferior vena cava is grafted on to the pulmonary arteries if this was not done previously.
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artery

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artery dissection
Vertebral artery dissection is associated with neck and occipital pain112 and may occur more commonly than is thought in patients diagnosed with vertebrobasilar insufficiency.
artery occlusion
A different device patient had to be treated overnight with heparin for femoral artery occlusion.
basilar artery
Multiple connexins form gap junction channels in rat basilar artery smooth muscle cells.
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