Read full poem →The hue -- of it -- is Blood --
An Artery -- upon the Hill --
A Vein -- along the Road --
Dictionary Entry
An efferent blood vessel from the heart, conveying blood away from the heart regardless of oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. arterydisease arterybypass arterystenosis arteryocclusion arteryartery coronaryartery pulmonaryartery carotid
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Poetry examples for “artery”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Hither! take me, use me, fill me,
Vein and artery, though ye kill me;
God! I will not be an owl,
Read full poem →business they thus sustain, he will see that the valley of the Con-
necticut, the main artery of New England trade and enterprise,
occupies no very insignificant place in the scale of forces that