Definition of Arterial

1. Adjective. Of or involving or contained in the arteries. "Arterial blood"

Partainyms: Artery
Derivative terms: Artery

Definition of Arterial

1. a. Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.

Definition of Arterial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to an artery. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to a route, major. ¹

3. Noun. A through road. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arterial

1. a type of highway [n -S] - See also: highway

Medical Definition of Arterial

1. Pertaining to an artery or to the arteries. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arterial

arteriae mediastinales anteriores
arteriae nasales posteriores laterales
arteriae nutriciae humeri
arteriae occipitalis
arteriae palpebrales
arteriae parietales
arteriae perforantes
arteriae pontis
arteriae renis
arteriae sigmoideae
arteriae suprarenales superiores
arteriae thalamostriatae anterolaterales
arteriae thymicae
arteriae ventriculares
arterial (current term)
arterial arcades
arterial arch of lower eyelid
arterial arch of upper eyelid
arterial arches of colon
arterial arches of ileum
arterial arches of jejunum
arterial blood
arterial blood gas
arterial blood gases
arterial blood vessel
arterial bulb
arterial canal
arterial capillary
arterial circle of cerebrum

Literary usage of Arterial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"Severe paroxysm of vomiting ; immediately after this arterial pressure 70-90 m. Pulse 96. In a few seconds arterial pressure 90 to 105 m. ; then in a little ..."

2. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"Arterien-ast, m. arterial branch .Arterien-blut, «. arterial blood Arterien-bruch, m. rupture of an Arterien-druck, m. arterial pressure ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Mammary arterial and Venous Concentrations of Serum Insulin in Lactating Dairy ... arterial and venous samples of blood were collected simultaneously on ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"As it leaves the right ventricle it is venous blood of a dark purple or maroon colour; when it falls into the left auricle it is arterial blood of a bright ..."

5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Subserous myomata, changes in the arterial circulation of the uterus. Slightly reduced in size. Radiograph of a cross slice, i cm. thick, of the body of the ..."

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