Artery Definition

ärtə-rē

arteries

noun

arteries

Any one of the system of thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.

Webster's New World

A major route of transportation into which local routes flow.

Traffic was heavy on the central artery.

American Heritage

A main road or channel.

Webster's New World

Any of the muscular elastic tubes that form a branching system and that carry blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs of the body.

American Heritage Medicine

An efferent blood vessel from the heart, conveying blood away from the heart regardless of oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.

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Other Word Forms of Artery

Noun

Singular:

artery

Plural:

arteries

Origin of Artery

Middle English arterie from Latin artēria from Greek artēriā windpipe, artery wer-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French artaire, from Latin artēria (“windpipe, artery”), from Ancient Greek ἀρτηρία (artēria).

From Wiktionary