Arteries are the tubes in your body that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Compare vein.
...patients suffering from blocked arteries.
Synonyms: vein, blood vessel More Synonyms of artery
2. countable noun
You can refer to an important main route within a complex road, railway, or river system as an artery.
Clarence Street was one of the north-bound arteries of the central business district.
...the point where the Ohio River, itself a great artery, joins the Mississippi.
Synonyms: route, way, course, round More Synonyms of artery
artery in British English
(ˈɑːtərɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-teries
1.
any of the tubular thick-walled muscular vessels that convey oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body
Compare pulmonary artery, vein
2.
a major road or means of communication in any complex system
Word origin
C14: from Latin artēria, related to Greek aortē the great artery, aorta
artery in American English
(ˈɑrtəri)
nounWord forms: pluralˈarteries
1.
any one of the system of thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
see also vein, capillary
2.
a main road or channel
Word origin
ME arterie < L arteria, windpipe, artery < Gr artēria, prob. < aeirein, to lift, take up
Examples of 'artery' in a sentence
artery
She suffered a cardiac arrest caused by a blocked heart artery.
The Sun (2016)
But the cancer had wrapped around one of his main arteries, making it impossible to remove.
The Sun (2016)
Not hitting a main artery?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The mile after mile of static car parks on the country's main arteries cause heart attacks for the economy and drivers alike.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is then fed back up the main artery of the body to the heart.
Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990)
Too much animal fat may lead to artery and heart problems.
Munro, Bill Dr. & Munro, Frances Beat Stress (1992)
Yet the backroom staff are the blood in the arteries of the system.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
These antioxidants appear to help to keep arteries elastic and blood flowing well.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They told him a main artery had been missed by inches.
The Sun (2014)
Blood flows from the heart to the periphery of the body in arteries.
Shreeve, Caroline (Dr.) How to Lower High Blood Pressure (1994)
These coronary arteries feed the heart muscle.
Mervyn, Leonard Preventing Heart Disease (1987)
The shrapnel which had hit his leg was less than two inches from a major artery.
The Sun (2008)
The blood in arteries is under high pressure.
Petch, Dr Michael BMA Family Doctor Guide - Heart Disease (1989)
Another inch and the sharp pencil could have punctured one of his main arteries.
The Sun (2009)
These arteries supply the heart muscles with blood.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The pellets missed major arteries by millimetres.
The Sun (2014)
Large deposits can block an artery so blood cannot flow.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Tests showed narrowing of the arteries caused a heart attack.
The Sun (2012)
One medic noticed a bruise on her neck near a major artery.
The Sun (2014)
But at the same time it causes the arteries that carry blood to the heart to close.
The Sun (2010)
Does it only help clogged arteries in the heart?
The Sun (2013)
Unlike sheep, these arteries are important suppliers of blood to the conscious part of the brain.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This road is one of the country's main arteries.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Secondly, certain other patients have a narrowing of a particularly important coronary artery or combination of coronary arteries.
Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990)
It seems to make sense that thin blood slides through the narrowed and blocked arteries of the body more easily than so-called thick blood.
Pantano, James A. (MD) Living with Angina (1991)
Some of them continued to be important arteries up to the time of the Civil War and well beyond.
Divine, Robert A. (editor) & Breen, T. H & Frederickson, George M & Williams, R. Hal America Past and Present (1995)
America's transportation arteries are so important to the economy that either road or rail industries have stood atop the pinnacle of business production over the past century.
Goddard, Stephen B. Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century (1994)
In other languages
artery
British English: artery /ˈɑːtərɪ/ NOUN
Your arteries are the tubes that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body.
...patients suffering from blocked arteries.
American English: artery
Arabic: شِرْيان
Brazilian Portuguese: artéria
Chinese: 动脉
Croatian: arterija
Czech: tepna
Danish: arterie
Dutch: slagader
European Spanish: arteria
Finnish: valtimo
French: artère
German: Arterie
Greek: αρτηρία
Italian: arteria
Japanese: 動脈
Korean: 동맥
Norwegian: pulsåre
Polish: tętnica
European Portuguese: artéria
Romanian: arteră
Russian: артерия
Latin American Spanish: arteria
Swedish: pulsåder
Thai: เส้นเลือดแดงที่นำเลือดแดงออกจากหัวใจ
Turkish: atardamar
Ukrainian: артерія
Vietnamese: động mạch
All related terms of 'artery'
iliac artery
either of two large arteries that conduct blood to the pelvis and the legs
carotid artery
A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood .
coronary artery
either of two arteries branching from the aorta and supplying blood to the heart
femoral artery
the main artery of the thigh , supplying blood to the leg
pulmonary artery
either of the two arteries that convey oxygen-depleted blood from the heart to the lungs
Chinese translation of 'artery'
artery
(ˈɑːtərɪ)
n(c)
(= blood vessel) 动(動)脉(脈) (dòngmài) (条(條), tiáo)
(= route) 要道 (yàodào) (条(條), tiáo)
1 (noun)
Definition
any of the tubes that carry oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body
patients suffering from blocked arteries
Synonyms
vein
Many veins are found just under the skin.
blood vessel
He's ruptured a blood vessel.
2 (noun)
Definition
a major road or means of communication
one of the north-bound arteries of the central business district
Synonyms
route
the most direct route to the town centre
way
He came round the back way.
course
For nearly four hours we maintained our course northwards.
round
The consultant did his morning round.
road
There was very little traffic on the roads.
passage
I spotted someone lurking in the passage between the two houses.
avenue
It is set in landscaped grounds at the end of a tree-lined avenue.
related words
related adjectivearterial
Additional synonyms
in the sense of avenue
Definition
a wide street
It is set in landscaped grounds at the end of a tree-lined avenue.
Synonyms
street,
way,
course,
drive,
road,
pass,
approach,
channel,
access,
entry,
route,
path,
passage,
entrance,
alley,
pathway,
boulevard,
driveway,
thoroughfare
in the sense of blood vessel
Definition
a tube through which blood travels in the body
He's ruptured a blood vessel.
Synonyms
vein,
artery
in the sense of course
Definition
the path or channel along which a river moves
For nearly four hours we maintained our course northwards.