Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, an artery: now mostly superseded by the English form of the word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
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- noun medicine
Artery .
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- noun a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
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Examples
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The word arteria, which had already been applied to the trachea, as an air-containing tube, was then attached to the arteries; on account of the rough and uneven character of its walls the trachea was then called the arteria tracheia, or the rough air-tube. 63 We call it simply the trachea, but in French the word trachée-artère is still used.
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The word arteria, which had already been applied to the trachea, as an air-containing tube, was then attached to the arteries; on account of the rough and uneven character of its walls the trachea was then called the arteria tracheia, or the rough air-tube. (31a) We call it simply the trachea, but in French the word trachee-artere is still used.
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A point of interest is that the windpipe, or trachea, is called "arteria," both by Aristotle and by Hippocrates ( "Anatomy," Littré, VIII, 539).
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He did not use the word "arteria" () for either of them.
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He did not use the word "arteria" (arthria) for either of them.
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A point of interest is that the windpipe, or trachea, is called "arteria," both by Aristotle and by Hippocrates ( "Anatomy," Littre, VIII, 539).
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_Nota quod quamvis Rogerius dicat quod apponatur albumen ovi, non approbo, quia frigidum est naturaliter, et vena et nervus et arteria frigida sunt naturaliter, et propter frigiditatem utrorumque non potest perfecte fieri consolidatio.
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It enters the body through the _rough artery_ (τραχεια αρτηρια {tracheia artêria}, _arteria aspera_ of mediaeval notation), the organ known to our nomenclature as the trachea.
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These appearances were propagated into the arteria innominata.
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The Descending Branch (ramus descendens; arteria princeps cervicis) (Fig. 513), the largest branch of the occipital, descends on the back of the neck, and divides into a superficial and deep portion.
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