artery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ar=ter=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

artery, n. [L. arteria windpipe, artery, Gr. .].

•  The trachea or windpipe.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.  [1913 Webster]

  " In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain arterialized blood receive it from the left ventricle of the heart through the aorta. See Aorta. The pulmonary artery conveys the venous blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, whence the arterialized blood is returned through the pulmonary veins."  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

artery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 any of the muscular-walled tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying oxygen-enriched blood from the heart (cf. VEIN).
2 a main road or railway line.

Derivative

arteritis n.

Etymology

ME f. L arteria f. Gk arteria prob. f. airo raise

THESAURUS

artery

Autobahn, US highway, access, aisle, alley, alleyway, ambulatory, aorta, aperture, arcade, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, arteriole, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, blood vessel, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, capillary, carotid, carriageway, causeway, causey, channel, chaussee, circumferential, cloister, close, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corduroy road, corridor, county road, court, covered way, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, defile, dike, dirt road, drag, drive, driveway, exit, expressway, ferry, ford, freeway, gallery, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, inlet, interchange, intersection, interstate highway, jugular vein, junction, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, opening, outlet, overpass, parkway, pass, passage, passageway, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, portal vein, portico, primary highway, private road, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, railroad tunnel, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, traject, trajet, tunnel, turnpike, underpass, vein, veinlet, vena cava, venation, venule, wynd

ROGET THESAURUS

artery

Method

N method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, MO, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, loan, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to, hae tibi erunt artes.

Conduit

N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.