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artery

/ahr-tuh-ree/US // ˈɑr tə ri //UK // (ˈɑːtərɪ) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ar·ter·ies.

    • : Anatomy. a blood vessel that conveys blood from the heart to any part of the body.
    • : a main channel or highway, especially of a connected system with many branches.

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Examples

  • The illusion of its Tolkien-esque isolation was fractured by its scary close proximity to the McKenzie Highway, a north–south artery thundering with logging trucks and sclerotic with tourists.

  • Former streets become snaking arteries of livable spaces, embedded with renewable energy resources, green vehicles, and productive nutrient zones.

  • Meanwhile, only in the massed-practice group did some trainees tear their furry patients’ arteries so badly that they had to call off the exercise.

  • They are both largely car dependent, located near interstate arteries.

  • ACE2 can be found on the surface of cells in the lungs, arteries, heart, kidney and intestines.

  • The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.

  • A fragment penetrated her shoulder, missing a major artery by an inch.

  • The horn, or broken rib, had hit an artery, and within a few minutes, or seconds, he was dead.

  • Dr. Ornish became famous in the 1990s for showing reversal of coronary artery disease using a very low-fat, near-vegetarian diet.

  • A bullet had struck a femoral artery and it was gushing blood as she kept firing.

  • On the other hand, his feet are so cold from the artery being severed that they anticipate mortification.

  • They scoured every main artery and side road and cart track for miles in every direction, he and Johnny the Itch.

  • The vital artery was missed, as he had anticipated, and the result was as he had foreseen.

  • On catching him I found that he had somehow severed an artery in his tail, and I had to improvise a tourniquet to stop the flow.

  • It would be the bursting of the ligature of the artery; and once under the water with its heavy burden, no power could raise it.