Adjacent Words

Arterial definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ARTE'RIAL, a. [See Artery.]
1. Pertaining to an artery or the arteries; as arterial action.
2. Contained in an artery; as arterial blood.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or involving or contained in the arteries; "arterial disease"; "the arterial system"; "arterial blood"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 15th century 1. a. of or relating to an artery b. relating to or being the bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills 2. of, relating to, or constituting through traffic • arterially adverb II. noun Date: 1932 a through street or highway

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of or relating to an artery (arterial blood). 2 (esp. of a road) main, important, esp. linking large cities or towns. Etymology: F artériel f. artère artery

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Arterial Ar*te"ri*al, a. [Cf. F. art['e]riel.] 1. Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system. 2. Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Arterial means involving or relating to your arteries and the movement of blood through your body. ...people with arterial disease. ADJ: ADJ n 2. An arterial road or railway is a main road or railway within a complex road or railway system. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, capillary, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, 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, turnpike, vascular, veinous, venose, venous, vesicular, wynd