The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arterial \Ar*te"ri*al\, a. [Cf. F. art['e]riel.]
Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.
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Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad.
Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.
WordNet
n. blood found in arteries; "except for the pulmonary artery the arterial blood is rich in oxygen"
Wikipedia
Arterial blood is the oxygenated blood in the circulatory system found in the lungs, the left chambers of the heart, and in the arteries. It is bright red in color, while venous blood is dark red in color (but looks purple through the translucent skin). It is the contralateral term to venous blood.
Framed in the cardiac cycle, often historically accredited to the Wiggers diagram, arterial blood has just passed through the lungs and is ready to boost oxygen to sustain the peripheral organs. The essential difference between venous and arterial blood is the curve of the oxygen saturation of hemoglobin. The difference in the oxygen content of the blood between the arterial blood and the venous blood is known as the arteriovenous oxygen difference.
Usage examples of "arterial blood".
They were a full four feet in length and they lofted slightly with his movements like ceremonial wands and he seized his thigh where the dark arterial blood was spurting along the shaft and took a step toward the shore and fell sideways into the river.
She defiantly shook the offending hair free of her shawl, so that it flowed over her shoulders like arterial blood.
Deep within the muscles of his neck, he could feel the steady throb of arterial blood.
His position behind her would have prevented him from being splashed by the arterial blood that would have spurted out of her sev.
Get them in bulk, though, millions and billions of them, and they would absorb enough such light to appear red -- in arterial blood, anyway, and they were in an artery now.
A fountain of arterial blood gushed from his head and cascaded down his torso and lower body and stained the water around his feet.
He closes his eyes as what she is, what she feels, what she wants surges through him with the throb of arterial blood.
Also streaked with arterial blood, so they'd been used during the cutting.
The dog's lean skull dropped in the dirt, washed with a gout of bright arterial blood.
As the strainer sank to the bottom of the beaker, Danal watched as the hibiscus petals caused a bright scarlet color to seep into the water, red like foaming arterial blood.