artery vs vein
Definitions
noun
- a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
- a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
Examples
She suffered a cardiac arrest caused by a blocked heart artery.
Sudden ruptures of the artery can lead to fatal blood loss or severe brain damage.
The researchers attached this 'contrast agent' to a molecule that binds to the protein elastin, which is found in artery walls.
Definitions
verb
- make a veinlike pattern
noun
- one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect
- a distinctive style or manner
- any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ
- a layer of ore between layers of rock
- a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
Examples
My body absorbed that ability as well; my veins are internally hardened against acids.
I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot.
There is an experiment, which seems to evince this venous absorption, which consists in the external application of a stimulus to the lips, as of vinegar, by which they become instantly pale; that is, the bibulous mouths of the veins by this stimulus are excited to absorb the blood faster, than it can be supplied by the usual arterial exertion.
