different between passageway vs artery

English

Etymology

passage +? way

Noun

passageway (plural passageways)

1. A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.

2. Any way for passing in, out or through something.

Translations

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