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artery 音标拼音: ['ɑrtɚi] n. 动脉,主流,干道 动脉,主流,干道 artery n 1: a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body [synonym: {artery}, {arteria}, {arterial blood vessel}] 2: a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic Artery \Ar"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Arteries}. [L. arteria windpipe, artery, Gr. ?.] 1. The trachea or windpipe. [Obs.] "Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach." --Holland. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) 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] Note: 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] 3. Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce. [1913 Webster] 125 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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