different between artery vs tourniquet

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

Etymology

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??.n?.ke?/, /?t??.n?.ke?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?.n?.k?t/, /?t??.n?.k?t/, /?t?.n?.ke?/

Noun

tourniquet (plural tourniquets)

1. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
3. A turnstile.

Translations

French

Etymology

From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?.ni.k?/

Noun

tourniquet m (plural tourniquets)

1. unpowered carousel (playground)
2. revolving door or turnstile

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: torniquete
• ? Spanish: torniquete
• ? Turkish: turnike

Further reading

• “tourniquet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).