arterial
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4.6
- adjective
- /ɑrˈtɪr.i.əl/
- Specialized
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arterial
- During surgery, the doctors discovered more arterial damage than they had expected.
- arterial pressure
- arterial blood
- arterial thrombosis
Notice that your arterial pH did not change at all.
- Notice that your arterial pH did not change at all.
- And and so that raises arterial pressure very high during the contraction, right.
- And then I remember thinking, fuck, I'm like, like I have an arterial bleed and I'm like, well, shit, if I don't fix that, I'll die.
- I also was born with an arterial venous malformation in your heart.
- So the endothelium, as you know, is the single cell lining that is the innermost part of the arterial and arterial wall.
- So what he was saying is that the smaller particles penetrate the arterial wall more frequently and get eaten by a necrophage.
Examples
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Would arterial red suit you?
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He's got a real deep laceration to his right arm, with arterial bleeding.
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Get an arterial line in him.
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His right leg is broken, and there was some arterial damage we had to go in and repair.
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This is an arterial blood spray.
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Could be arterial bleeding.
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Working against the flow of blood, the L4s gradually move up the arterial system of the intestine.
Academic text (2015) -
You have arterial sclerosis.
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Hyperventilation, to maintain the arterial pCO2 between 27 and 30 mm Hg, has also been suggested.
Academic text (1995) -
Recent studies have shown that red clover may improve arterial blood flow, which decreases during menopause.
Compounds
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5.4
A test that measures oxygen, carbon dioxide, and acid level of blood from an artery to check lung function
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5.6
Hardening and thickening of artery walls that reduces blood flow from the heart
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5.5
Fat builds up inside an artery and can block blood flow, causing heart problems
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3.2
A major road that carries a lot of traffic and connects important parts of a city
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A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the body
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Arterial comes from the old word arteria, which once meant 'air pipe' because people long ago thought arteries carried air. So arterial now means 'relating to arteries', the vessels that carry blood away from the heart, and the origin gives the image of a pipe that carries something away.