arterial

adjective ar·te·ri·al \ är-ˈtir-ē-əl \

|Updated on: 22 Jun 2018

Examples: arterial in a Sentence

Definition of arterial

1 a : of or relating to an artery

b : relating to or being the bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills

2 : of, relating to, or constituting through traffic

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arterially

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Recent Examples of arterial from the Web

The city will spend $11 million to resurface and repair arterial roads.

— jerod macdonald-evoy, azcentral, "From pickleball to bikepaths: What's in the Tempe budget for you," 12 June 2018
One can be caused by a brain bleed and the other by an arterial blockage.

— george parry, Philly.com, "I had a stroke. Don't do what I did if the same thing happens to you.," 1 June 2018
Inrix takes a big-data approach, gathering information from 300 million cars and devices, and covers both freeways and major arterial streets.

— elliot njus, OregonLive.com, "Portland-area traffic congestion is still getting worse, report says," 6 Feb. 2018
The lot will be connected to the stadium by a pedestrian tunnel that will pass underneath Bethany Home Road, and 95th Avenue will be extended all the way to Camelback Road to provide an arterial exit route from games.

— jack harris, azcentral, "Before Arizona snagged 2023 Super Bowl, Cardinals and Glendale had to make up," 30 May 2018
Cancer drug Revlimid, made by Celgene, was the subject of 13 letters, while Actelion’s Tracleer, another pulmonary arterial hypertension drug, is named 14 times.

— NBC News, "FDA publishes shame list of firms fighting generic competitors," 17 May 2018
The bacteria can also cause arterial infections, endocarditis and arthritis on rare occasions.

— Fox News, "Salmonella outbreak linked to massive egg recall sickens nearly three dozen people," 13 May 2018
The bacteria can also cause arterial infections, endocarditis and arthritis on rare occasions.

— Fox News, "Salmonella outbreak linked to massive egg recall sickens nearly three dozen people," 13 May 2018
The most common cause of stroke in the young is an injury to the artery in the neck called an arterial dissection.

— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Too young for a stroke? Think again.," 9 May 2018

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First Known Use of arterial

15th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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arterial

noun

Definition of arterial

: a through street or highway

Examples of arterial in a Sentence

one of the main arterials connecting the airport with the city

Recent Examples of arterial from the Web

Regardless of occasional inserts of green spaces or parks, the orientation of individual lots and the layout of branching arterials and cul-de-sacs often show no environmental consideration or orientation to reap solar or wind benefits.

— anthony alofsin, The Atlantic, "A Defense of the Suburbs," 6 June 2018
The town feels like any Midwestern suburb that’s lost its center — sprawling arterials, strip malls, some low rise motels with neon signs.

— pam mandel, Longreads, "Exodus in the Ozarks," 5 June 2018
While the Hills is being constructed, Kelley said the city is working on getting several big arterial roads underway to keep traffic from snarling as subdivisions grow.

— lauren ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Kudos to Minneola for halting annexations, shutting down growth until 2023," 21 May 2018
Some of the drugs on the list have had only a handful of inquiries but Letairis, a drug sold by Gilead Sciences to treat a condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension, got 10 queries.

— NBC News, "FDA publishes shame list of firms fighting generic competitors," 17 May 2018
There were 14 inquiries about getting supplies of Tracleer (bosentan), a medication prescribed for high blood pressure in the vessels of the lungs, known as pulmonary arterial hypertension.

— sheila kaplan, New York Times, "F.D.A. Names and Shames Drug Makers to Encourage Generic Competition," 17 May 2018
Between 2009 and 2016, deaths on arterials—the high-capacity, wide, multilane roads that feed into freeways or highways—jumped 67 percent.

— aarian marshall, WIRED, "Save Lives With Smarter, Slower Streets—Not Self-Driving Cars," 11 May 2018
As health care practices relocate to arterials such as Lake Otis Parkway and Tudor Road, opportunities have been created for both the redevelopment of existing uses and development of new properties.

— brandon spoerhase, Anchorage Daily News, "Here’s how growth in the health care industry is playing out in Alaska’s commercial real estate market," 4 May 2018
In December, the Justice Department reached a settlement agreement with drug maker United Therapeutics (UT), which sells several drugs that treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.

— USA TODAY, "Drug copay groups: Critical patient charities or fronts for drug makers?," 26 Apr. 2018