artery
Example Sentences
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For adults especially, that increases their risk of heart attacks and strokes because it causes plaque-forming particles to build up in their arteries over time, hardening and narrowing them.
It comes as Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper landed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday amid continued concern about Iranian threats to the Strait of Hormuz - a key artery for commercial shipping.
From BBC
The Strait is a key artery for shipping, both for energy supplies and vessels carrying other goods.
From BBC
The artery was conceived as a way to dodge the Persian Gulf and bring Saudi exports closer to Western markets.
Cardiologists favor this approach to stress testing to exclude coronary artery disease because it is relatively inexpensive, it is noninvasive and it yields a good deal of information about the structure of the heart.
From MarketWatch
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