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Artery
'ARTERY, n. [Gr. from air and to preserve or contain; so called, from the opinion of the ancients, that the arteries contained or circulated air. The term was also applied to the trachea or wind pipe, anteria aspera.
A cylindrical vessel or tube, which conveys the blood from the heart to all parts of the body. There are two principal arteries; the aorta, which rises from the left ventricle and ramifies through the whole body; and the pulmonary artery, which conveys the blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, to undergo respiration. An artery is composed of three coats; the outer consists of condensed cellular membrane, and is supplied with numerous blood vessels and nerves; the middle coat consists of circular fibers, generally supposed to be muscular; the inner coat, thin, smooth, and dense, confines the blood within its canal, and facilitates its motion.
artery appears in definitions for these words:
Anastomosis Aneurism Angiotomy Aorta Aortal Arterial Arteriotomy Artery Basilar Blood-vessel Brachial Branch Choroid Coeliac Conglobate Crural Cubital Cystic Dilatation Facial Femoral Gluteal Hepatic Humeral Hypogastric Inosculate Intercostal Orifice Ossification Pudic Pulmonary Pulsation Pulse Pyloric Raddock Ramification Saltation Sciatical Stitch Subscapular Sural Temporal Tibial Tracheal Trunk
Anastomosis Aneurism Angiotomy Aorta Aortal Arterial Arteriotomy Artery Basilar Blood-vessel Brachial Branch Choroid Coeliac Conglobate Crural Cubital Cystic Dilatation Facial Femoral Gluteal Hepatic Humeral Hypogastric Inosculate Intercostal Orifice Ossification Pudic Pulmonary Pulsation Pulse Pyloric Raddock Ramification Saltation Sciatical Stitch Subscapular Sural Temporal Tibial Tracheal Trunk
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