- 1any of the tubes that carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body blocked arteries compare vein see coronary artery
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
- 2a large and important road, river, railroad line, etc.
NAmE//ɑrˈtɪriəl//
adjective [only before noun] arterial blood/disease an arterial roadSee artery in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: artery