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Artery

noun

(pl. arteries)

A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body. Synonyms: arteria, arterial blood vessel.

A major thoroughfare that bears important traffic.

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"Artery" Quotes from Famous Books

... and inferior mesenteric veins that converge to form the large portal vein which enters the liver. Thus a massive flow of waste from all the cells of the body is constantly flowing into the liver. The huge hepatic artery also enters the liver to supply oxygen and nutrients with which to sustain the liver ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... and dismissed him. Then he left the office and boarded a Broadway car. At the first large crosstown artery of travel he took an eastbound car that deposited him in a decaying avenue, whose ancient structures once sheltered the pride and ...

— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... successful cry, where now stand our cities would have stood Indian wigwams; and canoes instead of steamers would have tracked the Hudson and the Connecticut; and, instead of the Mississippi being the main artery of the continent, it would have been only a trough for deer and antelope and wild pigeons to drink out of. What makes this cry of "America for the Americans" the more absurd and the more inhuman is that some in ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... that I do not for one moment regard as the final remedy, is the remedy of the architect and builder—profitable enough to them, anyhow—to widen the streets and to cut "new arteries." Now, every new artery means a series of new whirlpools of traffic, such as the pensive Londoner may study for himself at the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue with Oxford Street, and unless colossal—or inconveniently steep—crossing-bridges are ...

— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells

... attached the end of one of the tubes by means of a little cannula to the carotid artery of the dog. Then the other was attached to the ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

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