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.”
She stated the actual cause of death was narrowing and "calcification of his coronary arteries due to old age".
From BBC
There, she said, doctors treated her partially blocked arteries in the heart, telling her she had suffered a minor heart attack.
From Los Angeles Times
They are the arteries through which credit is extended, wages are paid, savings are stashed or withdrawn.
From BBC
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