arterial
动脉,动线,动脉性,动静脉
Definitions
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- : Physiology. pertaining to the blood in the pulmonary vein, in the left side of the heart, and in most arteries, having been oxygenated during its passage through the lungs and being normally bright red.
- : Anatomy. of, relating to, or resembling the arteries.
- : being or constituting a main route, channel, or other course of flow or access, often with many branches: an arterial highway; an arterial drainage system.
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- : a main route, channel, or other course of flow or access: funds to resurface the main arterials of the city.
Examples
Many highways appeared to be plowed and pretreated, but snow was piling up on major arterials and side roads, according to traffic cameras.
Many highways in the Washington area were plowed and pretreated, but traffic cameras showed snow piled up on some major arterials and side roads.
Over time, the theory goes, inflammation causes trouble—plaques and less pliable arterial walls.
Heavy lacerations, arterial bleeding, left leg and left arm.
By respiration the black venous blood is transformed into red arterial blood and regenerated.
He knew, also, that the pulmonary veins conducted arterial blood, and that the pericardium was a shut sac.
In 1687 Cowper saw the passage of the arterial into the venous current in the mesentery of a cat.
A sample of the dog's arterial blood contained ten per cent of acetylene.
The heart has a pair of venous ostia, often blending into one, and an anterior arterial aorta.