Thesaurus results for ARTERIES

arteries

noun

Definition of arteries next

plural of artery

as in highways

a passage cleared for public vehicular travel there's an accident on the main artery into town, so I'll be late

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Recent Examples of arteries As the population of Alameda has grown, the Webster and Posey tubes which connect the island to downtown Oakland have developed into congested arteries. —

Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026 Thousands of miles away, one of the world’s most critical energy arteries – the Strait of Hormuz – has also come to a virtual standstill as missiles and drones crisscross the Persian Gulf and Iran steps up its attacks on ships. —

Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026 The guidelines also call for wider use of coronary calcium scoring, which is a noninvasive scan that measures calcified plaque in the arteries. —

Allison Aubrey, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026 By maintaining a deep, decentralized buffer of hydrocarbons, any nation, whether a major producer or a critical importer, can sustain its domestic energy flow even when maritime arteries are severed. —

Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 The medical examiner ruled her death the result of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or hardened arteries, possibly due to a hereditary disorder. —

Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2026 And on those higher ozone days, there were more hemorrhage (bleeding, as opposed to clotting) strokes and more plaque buildup causing major arteries to harden. —

Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 4 Mar. 2026 Robert Moses famously described his highways as arteries. —

Jason Haber, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026 This held true even though fewer women had plaque in their arteries than men and the ones who did had lower volumes than the men in the study. —

Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Mar. 2026

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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2026
The Hoover-Durant neighborhood, known by some residents as Hoover-Foster, is bound by two interstate highways, distancing the community from the next nearest library branch about a mile away.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026