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Definition: Arterial |
ArterialAdjective1. Of or involving or contained in the arteries; "arterial disease"; "the arterial system"; "arterial blood". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arterial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pertaining to an artery or to the arteries. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Meningococcemia caused arterial occlusions. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Hypercholesterolemia augments experimental atherosclerosis when arterial "injury" is present. (references) | |
Once this state is achieved, arterial inflow is reduced to a level that matches venous outflow. (references) | ||
A low level of oxygen in the arterial blood may reveal that the alveoli are not taking up enough oxygen. (references) | ||
Business | Over the age of sixty, 60 percent of the population have arterial hypertension. (references) | |
In another recent study, it was found that between 25-30 percent of the population or around 7.5 million Argentines have arterial hypertension and that a surprising 6.5 million haven't a clue as to their precarious situation. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | About fifty percent of the road network is unpaved and over two-thirds of paved arterial roads do not have enough carriageway width for two lanes. (references) |
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| "Arterial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.84% of the time. "Arterial" is used about 259 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.84% | 256 | 18,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 259 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "arterial": arterial blood ♦ arterial blood gases ♦ arterial cable ♦ arterial embolization ♦ arterial highway ♦ Arterial Occlusive Diseases ♦ arterial oxygen saturation ♦ arterial pressure ♦ arterial road ♦ arterial sclerosis ♦ arterial tension ♦ Cerebral Arterial Diseases ♦ greater arterial circle of iris ♦ greater arterial circle of the iris ♦ Intracranial Arterial Diseases ♦ lesser arterial circle of iris ♦ lesser arterial circle of the iris. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "arterial": arterial-alveolar. | |
Ending with "arterial": sub-arterial. | |
Containing "arterial": Arterio-Arterial Fistula. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "arterial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | arterial, kryesor (arch, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رئيسي (arch, broad, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple), شرياني التركيب, شرياني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | главен (capital, chief, decuman, general, grand, head, high, leading, magistral, main, major, master, pivotal, premier, primary, prime, principal, stellar), магистрален (magistral), артериален. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 动脉 (Arteries, Artery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | arteríalní, tepenní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | arteriel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | arterieel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مربوطبه شریان یاسرخرگ , شریانی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pulmonaalihypertonia (pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertension), hypotensio (arterial hypotension, hypotension), kallonsisäisen verisuonen dissekoituminen (intracranial arterial dissection, intracranial dissection), keuhkoverenkierron hypertensio (pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertension), keuhkoverenpainetauti (pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertension), pääjohto (main), päätie (arterial road), epänormaalin matala verenpaine (arterial hypotension, hypotension), pulmonaalihypertensio (pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertension), verikaasumittaus (arterial blood gas level, arterial blood gas measurement, blood gas level), raajojen valtimoaneurysma (arterial aneurysm of the limbs), runkotie (arterial road, trunk road), valtimon ahtauma (arterial stenosis), valtimostenoosi (arterial stenosis), valtimoveren happikyllästeisyys (arterial oxygen saturation, oxygen saturation of hemoglobin, SaO 2), valtimoveren happiosapaine (arterial oxygen tension, PaO 2), valtimoveren hiilidioksidiosapaine (arterial carbon dioxide tension, PaCO 2), pääväylä (arterial road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | artériel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | arteriell, eine Hauptader betreffend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρτηριακόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עורקי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ütõéri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | arterioso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 動脈血 (arterial blood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうみゃくけつ (arterial blood), どうみゃっけつ (arterial blood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 동맥 (Arteries, Artery, Gland, glands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mooar-chuishlinagh, arteyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arterialay arterial. (various references) arterial. (various references) артериальный. (various references) arterijski. (various references) arterial. (various references) arteriell. (various references) เกี่ยวกับเส้นเลือ"แ"งที่นำเลือ"แ"งออกจากหัวใจ. (various references) atardamarla ilgili, atardamar (artery). (various references) магістральний (long distance), артеріальний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "arterial": arterially, arterials. (additional references) | |
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"Arterial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alterial, arcturean, armerian, Aroeira, Artemio, artereal, arteria, arterie, artirial, aterial, Barteria, Martereau, martyrial, Orteuil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arterial" (pronounced Ärti"rēul) |
| 6 | -t i" r ē u l | antibacterial, bacterial, biomaterial, immaterial, material. |
| 5 | -i" r ē u l | cereal, ethereal, imperial, managerial, serial, venereal. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, arboreal, Ariel, burial, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, industrial, janitorial, magisterial, malarial, memorial, mercurial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, terrestrial, territorial, tutorial, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: retrial, trailer. | |
-2 letters: aerial, artier, atrial, errata, irater, irreal, lariat, latria, railer, realia, retail, retial, retral, tailer. | |
-3 letters: airer, alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, ariel, artal, artel, atria, irate, laari, later, liter, litre, ratal, ratel, rater, reata, relit, retia, riata, talar, taler, tarre, telia, terai, terra, tiara, tiler, trail, trial, trier. | |
-4 letters: airt, alae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: arterials, erratical. | |
+2 letters: arbitrable, arterially, arteriolar, praetorial, premarital, trilateral. | |
+3 letters: advertorial, ameliorator, cartularies, caterpillar, erratically, intercalary, interracial, intradermal, labradorite, libertarian, narratively, proletarian, proletariat, rattlebrain, recalibrate, retaliatory, retrainable, secretarial, tarradiddle, trailblazer, trailerable, ultramarine. | |
+4 letters: aberrational, advertorials, ameliorators, amelioratory, artilleryman, bardolatries, caterpillars, chartularies, extracranial, extramarital, fraternalism, imperatorial, interlaminar, laboratories, labradorites, libertarians, materializer, perorational, premaritally, proletarians, proletariats, quarterfinal, rationalizer, rattlebrains, rearticulate, recalcitrant, recalibrated, recalibrates, recreational, reflationary, restrainable, tarradiddles, trailblazers, trailbreaker, turbellarian, ultraliberal, ultramarines, ultrarealism, ultrarealist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 74 65 72 69 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. - . .-. .. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r t e r i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0074 0065 0072 0069 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3584867184756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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