The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arterialize
Arterialize \Ar*te"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arterialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Arterializing.] To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.
WordNet
arterialize
v. change venous blood into arterial blood [syn: arterialise]
Usage examples of "arterialize".
No country is arterialized by such a vast system of navigable streams, to have constructed which as canals of equal capacity would have cost more than ten billions of dollars, and then these canals would have been subjected to large tolls, the cost of their annual repairs would have been enormous, and the interruption by lockage a serious obstacle.