arteries
Example Sentences
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Both the higher and lower fitness groups who consumed the low-flavanol drink showed declines in FMD in the arteries of their arms and legs.
From Science Daily
More than 100 older patients in their 60s and 70s treated at Mayo for an autoimmune disease that attacks the arteries had unusually vigorous immune systems that had not slowed with age, dubbed “immune youth.”
The roads have been called “arteries of destruction” and often generate deforestation resembling a fish skeleton, with smaller dirt roads branching off the spine of an official road.
From Seattle Times
A huge mouthpiece analyses the air I exhale and an ultrasound inspects the flow of blood to my brain through the carotid arteries in my neck.
From BBC
The higher number equates to pressure of blood in the arteries when the heart beats, known as systolic blood pressure.
From BBC
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