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arterially

arterially

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Through a main blood vessel to send medicine quickly to the affected part of the body
  • adverb
  • /ɑːrˈtɪəriəli/
  • Specialized
: arterialmente
  • Blood flows arterially from the heart to the rest of the body.
  • bleeding arterially

Examples

  • The medication was delivered arterially to reach the affected tissue quickly.

  • The surgeon reported that the patient was bleeding arterially due to a severe injury.

  • Doctors sometimes inject contrast dye arterially during certain imaging procedures.

  • The treatment was administered arterially rather than through a vein for better results.

  • The medication was delivered arterially to ensure rapid absorption.

  • During the operation, the doctors had to control a hemorrhage that was arterially significant.

  • The emergency response team acted quickly when they discovered the victim was bleeding arterially.

Surface Forms

arterially positive

Morphology

arterially = arterial (transparent) = artery + ial + ly

Regular adverbial derivation from 'arterial' meaning 'relating to an artery', so the sense 'in a manner relating to an artery' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word arterially comes from artery, meaning a main blood vessel. In medicine it is used to mean 'by way of an artery', so something done arterially goes through an artery to reach the body quickly.