digital artery
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- noun
- /ˈdɪdʒɪtəl ˈɑːrtəri/
- Specialized
:
arteria digital
- Blood flows through the digital artery, supplying nutrients to each finger.
Examples
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Arteritis of diverse etiologies has been associated with digital artery vasospasm, as well as with digital artery obstruction producing finger ischemia and finger gangrene.
Academic text (2007) -
Arteritis of diverse etiologies has been associated with digital artery vasospasm, as well as with digital artery obstruction producing finger ischemia and finger gangrene.
Academic text (2007) -
"I take a stitch in the digital artery, and Dinh's hand rises from the drapes.
Fiction book (2000) -
The surgeon carefully repaired the damaged digital artery in the patient's thumb.
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An injury to the digital artery can lead to serious complications, including loss of feeling in the affected digit.
Synonyms
A blood vessel that carries blood to a finger or toe
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning ‘an artery supplying a finger or toe’ is directly compositional from 'digital' (relating to a finger/toe) plus 'artery' (a blood vessel). While 'digital' also has a technological sense, the anatomical context makes the compound's meaning transparent and immediately derivable for learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Digital artery comes from digital, an old word for 'finger' or 'toe', and artery, meaning a 'blood vessel'. So it simply names the blood vessel that goes to a finger or toe.