Arteries: What They Are, Anatomy Function - Cleveland Clinic Arteries distribute oxygen-rich blood to your body Arteries, part of your circulatory (cardiovascular) system, are the blood vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood from your heart to all of your body’s cells They play a crucial role in distributing oxygen, nutrients and hormones throughout your body
Arterial - definition of arterial by The Free Dictionary 1 Of, like, or in an artery or arteries 2 Of, relating to, or being the blood in the arteries that has absorbed oxygen in the lungs and is bright red 3 Being a main road or channel with many branches: an arterial highway; an arterial route
arterial - definition and meaning - Wordnik Having a main channel and many branches or ramifications, like the arteries: as, arterial drainage from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
arterial - WordReference. com Dictionary of English being or constituting a main route, channel, or other course of flow or access, often with many branches: an arterial highway; an arterial drainage system n Transport a main route, channel, or other course of flow or access: funds to resurface the main arterials of the city ar•te′ri•al•ly, adv