Artery is an English word with synonyms like thoroughfare. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Artery in a sentence
Artery meaning
- Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
- A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.
Synonyms of Artery
Using Artery
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery. | A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.
- Useful related words include: arteria, arterial blood vessel, blood vessel, thoroughfare.
- In the example corpus, artery often appears in combinations such as: coronary artery, artery disease, an artery.
Context around Artery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Artery
- In this selection, "artery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, coronary, femoral, descending, disease, runs and using stand out and add context to how "artery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the femoral artery in his and a blocked artery. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "artery" sits close to words such as agitation, alec and bluff, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with artery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He needed a stent for a blocked artery. (8 words)
Atherosclerosis of a coronary artery leads to coronary artery disease (CAD). (11 words)
The greater curvature is supplied by the right gastro-omental artery inferiorly and the left gastro-omental artery superiorly. (19 words)
In adults who go to the emergency department with an unclear cause of pain, about 30% have pain due to coronary artery disease. citation Risk factors Coronary artery disease has a number of well determined risk factors. (37 words)
The retinal circulation, on the other hand, supplies the inner layer of the retina and passes with the optic nerve as a branch of the ophthalmic artery called the central artery of the retina. (34 words)
In order to reconstruct his jaw, doctors had to take a portion of his fibula bone in his leg, along with skin and an artery to help re-attach his jaw to his neck. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Her left anterior descending artery, the so-called "widow maker," was 100% blocked, and she had a 70% blockage in another artery.
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These adult stem cells were then transported to the brain through the carotid artery using an interventional catheterization procedure done through a small hole in the groin artery.
Other conditions an embolization procedure could be used to treat include aneurysms, or a bulge of an artery, and arteriovenous malformation, or abnormal connection between an artery and vein.
Reports state the projectile severed the femoral artery in his right leg and also caused damage to the femoral artery in his left leg.
Atherosclerosis of a coronary artery leads to coronary artery disease (CAD).
In adults who go to the emergency department with an unclear cause of pain, about 30% have pain due to coronary artery disease. citation Risk factors Coronary artery disease has a number of well determined risk factors.
The fundus of the stomach, and also the upper portion of the greater curvature, is supplied by the short gastric artery which arises from the splenic artery.
The greater curvature is supplied by the right gastro-omental artery inferiorly and the left gastro-omental artery superiorly.
The patient bends the knee at approximately 124°, and the physician holds it in both hands to find the popliteal artery in the pit behind the knee ( Popliteal artery ).
The retinal circulation, on the other hand, supplies the inner layer of the retina and passes with the optic nerve as a branch of the ophthalmic artery called the central artery of the retina.
The right coronary artery runs in a groove at the back of the heart and the left anterior descending artery runs in a groove at the front.
A post-mortem determined his cause of death to have been a deep stab wound to his thigh that penetrated his femoral artery.
Despite the estate's claims, a medical examiner determined that Sicknick had suffered two devastating strokes in his brain stem, which caused a clot in an artery.
Fathema Miah broke her kneecap in two places and snapped an artery after an accident coming down a slide at the Lilidorei attraction with her toddler.
He needed a stent for a blocked artery.
He said this is rare and is brought about when an artery and vein close together are punctured or crushed and allow blood to flow from one to the other.
He suffered grievous injuries, including bites, from the canine teeth of the hippopotamus that led to the rupture in a major artery on the leg.
In order to reconstruct his jaw, doctors had to take a portion of his fibula bone in his leg, along with skin and an artery to help re-attach his jaw to his neck.
Kim Barauskas said that right after she accidentally injected tranq into an artery, she felt like her hands had been dipped in acid.
Common combinations with artery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- coronary artery 38×
- artery disease 30×
- an artery 23×
- artery and 19×
- artery in 14×
- the artery 14×
- artery to 11×
- main artery 9×
- peripheral artery 8×
- pulmonary artery 8×