different between artery vs intraarterial

English

Alternative forms

• (blood vessel): arteria

Etymology

Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin art?ria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (art?rí?, “windpipe; artery”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: är?t??i
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.t?.?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.t??.i/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??i

Noun

artery (plural arteries)

1. (anatomy) Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.

   Hyponyms: alloartery, arteriole, endartery, microartery; see also Thesaurus:artery

2. (transport) A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.

Derived terms

• arterial
• arteritis
• arterylike

Related terms

• arterially
• arterio-, arteri-
• arteriole

Translations

See also

• aorta
• A-road
• atheroma
• capillary
• circulatory system
• vein

References

• “artery”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “artery”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• rarety

English

Alternative forms

• intrarterial
• intra-arterial

Etymology

intra- +? arterial

Adjective

intraarterial (not comparable)

1. Within (or into) an artery

See also

• intravenous