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Definition of arterial
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Recent Examples of arterial from the Web
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One major problem is that many suburbs were built with the car in mind — with residential developments designed for moving cars in and out, and communities separated by major highways and big arterial streets.
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On the contrary, resistance training may actually reduce arterial stiffness.
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The PSRC study charged tolls based on miles driven, with one price for every major highway in the region and another price for every arterial street.
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Midy began researching an alternative procedure and discovered an intra-arterial chemotherapy treatment, which goes through a major artery to the brain to infuse drugs.
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Flow reversal is actually a new take on what has already been an evolution in how surgeons treat stroke-causing arterial disease that kills an estimated 130,000 Americans per year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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That's when the noise from the constantly busy Orchard Road — a four-lane arterial highway that is a major thoroughfare between North Aurora, Aurora, Montgomery and Oswego —starts to kick in.
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Take, for example, an east-west arterial street, with the primary traffic flow and main phases running east-west.
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Dozens of residents opposed the project, saying traffic would choke arterial roads for years, bring endless dust and noise that will steal their peace.
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First Known Use of arterial
15th century
arterial
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
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With the rapidly expanding capital’s arterial and ring roads congested with traffic, Finnish authorities are willing to try anything that has a realistic prospect of reducing the number of cars, while providing a similar level of convenience.
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Previously, the closest playground was across a busy arterial and nearly a mile away.
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That’s because all of Seattle’s central-city arterials are marked and usually have much more traffic.
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By the 1990s, an arterial switch replaced the atrial switch, with seemingly better outcomes.
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The road is a county highway, and over the years the county began planning it as a major arterial through the western edge of Kane's urban corridor.
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Higher traffic arterial streets such as Hawthorne Boulevard, Southeast Division Street or Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard would likely not be affected, according to a city spokesman.
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Once in trouble with life-threatening arterial damage, patients are usually treated with stents in hopes of keeping the vessels from closing down, at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000 for each procedure.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'arterial.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of arterial
1920
Medical Dictionary
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