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Artery

see synonyms of artery

Noun

1. arteria, arterial blood vessel, artery

a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body

2. artery

a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Artery

see synonyms of artery
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, vein
2. 
a major road or means of communication in any complex system

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Artery

see synonyms of artery
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, capillary
2. 
a main road or channel

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Artery

see synonyms of artery
n. pl. ar·ter·ies
1. Anatomy Any of the muscular elastic tubes that form a branching system and that carry blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs of the body.
2. A major route of transportation into which local routes flow: Traffic was heavy on the central artery.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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