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Arterial   /ɑrtˈɪriəl/   Listen
adjective
Arterial  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.
2.
Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad.
Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.






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"Arterial" Quotes from Famous Books



... elements are extracted for the support of the tissue and for the product, which the function of the organ forms. The force required in the achievement of this is furnished by combustion of the hydrocarbons and oxygen brought by the arterial blood, then by the veins this same fluid passes off, less its oxygen, loaded with the waste products, which are the result of the worn-out and disintegrated tissues, and of those which have undergone combustion. ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... tissue, cannot retract and contract so as to bring about the natural arrest of haemorrhage, and it is difficult to apply forceps or ligatures to their cut ends, suture ligatures are more efficient. On account of the free arterial anastomosis in the deeper layers of the integument, large flaps of scalp will survive when replaced, even if badly bruised and torn, and it is never advisable to cut away any un-infected portion of the scalp, however badly it may be ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... fever. 2. Ebrietas. Drunkenness. 3. Haemorrhagia arteriosa. Arterial haemorrhage. 4. Haemoptoe arteriosa. Spitting of arterial blood. 5. Haemorrhagia narium. ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... said and repeated that he is not a poet, and yet the readers that respond to him the most fully appear to be those in whom the poetic temperament is paramount. I believe he supplies in fuller measure that pristine element, something akin to the unbreathed air of mountain and shore, which makes the arterial blood of poetry and literature, ...
— Whitman - A Study • John Burroughs

... in that organ were described; when the boys, (having previously had a lesson on the nature of water, atmospheric air, and the gases,) readily understood the importance of bringing the oxygen into contact with the blood, for its renovation from the venous to the arterial state. The nature of the stomach and of digestion, of the intestines, lacteals, and absorbents, was next explained, more in regard to their nature than their names,—which last were most difficult to remember;—but the knowledge of the function, invariably ...
— A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education • James Gall


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