Usually means: Vessels that carry blood away.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. artery: Merriam-Webster
  2. artery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. artery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. artery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. artery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Artery, artery: Wordnik
  7. artery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Artery: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. artery: Wiktionary
  10. artery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. artery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. artery: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. artery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. artery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Artery (band), Artery (character), Artery (disambiguation), Artery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Artery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. artery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. artery: Rhymezone
  19. Artery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. artery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. artery: FreeDictionary.org
  22. artery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. artery: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. artery: Dictionary.com
  25. artery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. artery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. artery: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. artery: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. artery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. artery: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Artery: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Artery (arteries): Merck Manuals
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  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
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  10. Kidney Patient Guide Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  12. artery: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. artery: Medical Etymology Anatomy
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  15. artery: Medical dictionary
  16. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  17. Artery: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. artery: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (anatomy) 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.
noun:  (transport) A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.

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