arteries

Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart and to the body tissues. (Compare veins; see circulatory system.)

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Twenty minutes later, the surgeons told us they needed to start on the 12-hour operation to save his arteries.
Those Kansas City Blues: A Family History|Katie Baker|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The drug halts the development of atherosclerosis, a word referring to the hardening of the arteries.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Come Closer to Eliminating Heart Disease|Dale Eisinger|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Paleo diet is dangerous because it permits red meat, which clogs our arteries and shortens our lifespan.
In Defense of the Paleo Diet|Chris Kresser, M.S., L.AC.|January 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Of these deaths, coronary heart disease—the narrowing of the arteries that feed the heart—accounts for more than half the deaths.
Heart Attack 101: What May Have Killed James Gandolfini|Kent Sepkowitz|June 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST

It is art that reaches deep into arteries and jowels that sag with life lived.
Lucian Freud's Naked Truths|Eric Pape|March 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The skin was covered with purple wales, crossing each other like the arteries in an anatomic plate!
The Maroon|Mayne Reid
They show that the arteries are comparatively empty and that the veins are congested.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various
There, when my days100 of moneylust are over, I go to chew my memories and dream my dreams and listen to my arteries hardening.
Europe After 8:15|H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
Table illustrating anastomotic circulation after ligature of arteries of lower limb.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery|Joseph Bell
Diseases of the aortic valves of the heart cause visible pulsations of the arteries, especially of those in the neck.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley