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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
After all, the only diets proven to open blocked arteries are no-added-fat vegetarian (Ornish-style) diets.
Eating More Fat Could Save Your Life|Daniela Drake|December 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He was found at autopsy to have severe hardening of his coronary arteries.
Maybe You Shouldn't Run a Marathon|Kent Sepkowitz|November 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Wide and straight, well made and tree-lined throughout, it supplied the two great arteries of Indian life.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
It extends from the Strand to Holborn, the two principal business arteries of London.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
If the patient has been very much run down, death may take place from thrombosis of some of the arteries.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
Others, main arteries of a mysterious circulation, lengthened out in the rock in dark and tortuous fissures.
Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo
Horrid the gashes where jagged iron had cut through the flesh, severing arteries and tendons in an instant.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.

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