Other forms: arteries
An artery is one of the wide tubes carrying blood away from the heart. A blocked artery, the main artery, arterial blood.
Arteries carry blood away and veins carry it back, which is the definition — it is direction rather than oxygen, and the pulmonary artery carries blood with little oxygen in it. Their walls are thick and muscular to take the pressure. A main road is called an artery by the same image.
1nounarteryA tube carrying blood away from the heart.
“The surgeon repaired a blocked artery near his heart.”
artery is a blood vessel.
Latin arteria comes from Greek arteria, which meant a windpipe as well as an artery, since arteries are empty after death.
Middle English
arterie
English, today
artery
From Middle English arterie. Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (“windpipe; artery”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA