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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner of an artery; by means of arteries.

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Examples

  • The drivers of two of the cars were severely injured, and bleeding arterially.

    Jilly Gagnon: The Ethicist: Spiting Miss Lazy 2009

  • As far as Paul was concerned, it had been two great weeks of long, free-associative talks and golf games and jogs and arterially disastrous man-meals, through much of which Elise slept peacefully on her pillow stuffed with rice.

    The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005

  • The enemy force also had unmanned arterially pieces, armored personnel carriers, loaded multiple rocket launcher systems, a surface-to-air missile warehouse and a number of computers.

    CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2003 2003

  • Jack Randall -- such a jolly chick! you must be introduced to him -- has promised to tie a cord across the pavement at the corner, from the lamp-post to a door-scraper; and we have made a careful estimate that, out of every half-dozen people who pass, six will fall down, four cut their faces more or less arterially, and two contuse their foreheads.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 Various

  • The fluorescent light or an actual light box arterially mimics sunlight exposure.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Oz Garcia 2011

  • B16-GFP cells were able to fuse with the nascent or the pre-existing myofibers when directly or intra-arterially injected into injured or uninjured TA muscle.

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  • Ionic contrast media, when injected intravenously or intra-arterially, may promote sickling in individuals who are homozygous for sickle cell disease.

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  • In 1988, in response to concerns expressed by the FDA about the risks of intra-arterial injection of Phenergan, Wyeth proposed new language that for the label that described how to decrease the risk of "inadvertently injecting [Phenergan] intra-arterially."

    FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles 2009

  • However, that is an attitude that is shaped by my very Western lifestyle wherein Western grocery stores have no such thing as food courts attached to them wolfing down a sandwich slapped together at the Boar's Head deli counter while waiting in the Express checkout line does not count as a food court, and food courts in shopping malls are teeming with screaming, disobedient children, making for a highly unenjoyable, stressful decision-making process between deep-fried hot dogs impaled on sticks and peddled by pimple-faced Rain-bo Brites and the less arterially noxious chicken "patty" that has been breaded, deep-fried, and smeared with diet mayo.

    Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market 2006

  • However, that is an attitude that is shaped by my very Western lifestyle wherein Western grocery stores have no such thing as food courts attached to them wolfing down a sandwich slapped together at the Boar's Head deli counter while waiting in the Express checkout line does not count as a food court, and food courts in shopping malls are teeming with screaming, disobedient children, making for a highly unenjoyable, stressful decision-making process between deep-fried hot dogs impaled on sticks and peddled by pimple-faced Rain-bo Brites and the less arterially noxious chicken "patty" that has been breaded, deep-fried, and smeared with diet mayo.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

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