artery

English

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Etymology

From Old French artaire, from Latin artēria (“windpipe, artery”), from Ancient Greek ἀρτηρία (artēria).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɑː.tə.ɹɪ/, SAMPA: /A:t@ri/
• (US) enPR: ärʹtəɹɪ, IPA: /ˈɑɹ.təɹɪ/, SAMPA: /Art@ri/

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Noun

artery (plural arteries)

1. An efferent blood vessel from the heart, conveying blood away from the heart regardless of oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
2. A major transit corridor.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:artery

Derived terms

• arterial
• arterially
• arteriole
• carotid artery
• pulmonary artery

Translations

blood vessel from the heart

Albanian: arterie (sq) Arabic: شريان (ar) (shiryaan) m. Armenian: զարկերակ (hy) (zarkerak) Bulgarian: артерия (bg) Catalan: artèria f. Chinese: Mandarin: 動脈 (cmn), 动脉 (cmn) (dòngmài) Czech: tepna (cs) f. Dutch: slagader (nl) m. Esperanto: arterio (eo) Estonian: arter (et) Finnish: valtimo (1) French: artère (fr) f. German: Arterie (de) f. Greek: αρτηρία (el) (artiría) f. Hungarian: artéria (hu)

Icelandic: slagæð (is) f. Ido: arterio (io) Italian: arteria (it) f. Japanese: 動脈 (ja) (どうみゃく, dōmyaku) Korean: 동맥 (ko) (dongmaek) (動脈 (ko)) Latin: artēria (la) f. Maltese: arterja Old English: ǽdre (ang) f. Polish: tętnica (pl) f. Portuguese: artéria (pt) f. Russian: артерия (ru) (artérija) f. Scottish Gaelic: cuisle f., cuisle-fhala f., cuisle-mhòr f. Slovene: arterija (sl) f. Spanish: arteria (es) f. Volapük: ratär  (vo)

major transit corridor

Spanish: carretera principal (es) f.; arteria (es) f.

See also

• aorta
• A-road
• atheroma
• capillary
• circulatory system
• vein

Anagrams

• rarety