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artery
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Word definitions for artery in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French arterie , Old French artaire (13c.; Modern French artère ), and directly from Latin arteria , from Greek arteria "windpipe," also "an artery," as distinct from a vein; related to aeirein "to raise" (see aorta ).\n \nThey were ...
Usage examples of artery.
But when you realize that arterial aging affects a lot more than the arteries going to your heart, the importance of arterial health becomes clearer.
Those flavonoids act as an antioxidant, which helps reduce aging of the arteries and the immune system.
And somehow it decreases the aging of your heart, arteries, and immune systems.
Under local anesthetic, a thin, flexible catheter was passed up the femoral artery in the leg, to the aorta, and finally to the celiac axis, a network of arteries coming off the aorta to supply blood to all the upper-abdominal organs.
Especially since the initial diagnosis in each case was a hereditary vascular malformation, one being a Berry aneurysm, or sacular weakening of an artery that was leaking blood, and the other a capsular angioma, same as Kathleen Sullivan had.
But for the local aneurysmal thrill at the point of the scar the condition would have been diagnosed as angioma, but as a bruit could be heard over the entire mass it was called an aneurysmal varix, because it was believed there was a connection between a rather large artery and a vein close to the mass.
Physostigmine, indeed, stimulates nearly all the non-striped muscles in the body, and this action upon the muscular coats of the arteries, and especially of the arterioles, causes a great rise in blood-pressure shortly after its absorption, which is very rapid.
Nelaton describes an instance in which the point of an umbrella wounded the cavernous sinus and internal carotid artery of the opposite side, causing the formation of an arteriovenous aneurysm which ultimately burst, and death ensued.
Olive oil, whole-grain pasta, and asparagus decrease the inflammatory gremlins that age your arteries.
At this time they had diseased and atheromatous arteries, and Chang, who was quite intemperate, had marked spinal curvature, and shortly afterward became hemiplegic.
This in turn raises the likelihood that cholesterol will clog arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis, which then increases risk of coronary artery disease, heart attack, and untimely death.
The axillary artery was seen lying in the wound, pulsating feebly, but had been efficiently closed by the torsion of the machinery.
Boerhaave mentions a peasant near Leyden, whose axillary artery was divided with a knife, causing great effusion of blood, and the patient fainted.
She followed his blow, striking under his arm to the inner flesh of the biceps and then tearing again at the artery.
She gave up the unequal struggle to cover the wound, but concentrated on getting two fingers over the brachial artery and applying pressure, and was presently rewarded by the sight of the lessened bleeding.