arteries
Example Sentences
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High blood pressure develops when the force of blood pushing through the arteries stays consistently elevated.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Airlines stocks slumped as the conflict in the Middle East disrupted operations across the region, crippling travel through some of the world’s most crowded transit arteries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
In a similar vein, astronauts who have spent six months in space show damage to their arteries and endocrine system that is consistent with over a decade of aging.
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2026
Transcranial Doppler ultrasound tracks how quickly blood travels through the brain's major arteries.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
When taken out of the stocks his skin was cold and shrivelled; there was no perceptible pulsation in the temporal or radial arteries, and he complained of severe cephalgia ...
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
