ARTERIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arterial mean? 

• ARTERIAL (adjective)
  The adjective ARTERIAL has 1 sense:

1. of or involving or contained in the arteries

  Familiarity information: ARTERIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTERIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or involving or contained in the arteries

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

arterial blood

Pertainym:

artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

Derivation:

artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

 Context examples 

Thickening and loss of elasticity of arterial walls.

(Arteriosclerosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A small, terminal branch in the arterial system.

(Arteriole, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign vascular lesion characterized by the presence of a complex network of communicating arterial and venous vascular structures.

(Arteriovenous Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Build-up of fatty material and calcium deposition in the arterial wall resulting in partial or complete occlusion of the arterial lumen.

(Atherosclerosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Peripheral arterial disease. These arteries are in your arms, legs and pelvis. When they are blocked, you can suffer from numbness, pain and sometimes infections.

(Atherosclerosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The X-ray examination of the arterial blood vessels.

(Arteriography, NCI Thesaurus)

The smooth muscle tissue present in the tunica media which is the middle layer of the wall of the arterial system.

(Arterial System Smooth Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The spinach leaf might be better suited for a highly vascularized tissue, like cardiac tissue, whereas the cylindrical hollow structure of the stem of Impatiens capensis (jewelweed) might better suit an arterial graft.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

A device or treatment used to stop bleeding and close the location of arterial entry following a percutaneous coronary intervention.

(Arterial Access Closure, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The passage of an embolus from its site of formation in the arterial system to another location within the circulatory system.

(Arterial Embolus, NCI Thesaurus)