arteries
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Get on the freeway and you understand the whole body of the city at once: the arteries, the pulse, the scale of the thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Emergency surgery removed a blood clot that was blocking 90% of one of her arteries, and she was told by doctors she was lucky to be alive.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
High blood pressure develops when the force of blood pushing through the arteries stays consistently elevated.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Airlines stocks slumped as the conflict in the Middle East disrupted operations across the region, crippling travel through some of the world’s most crowded transit arteries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
The autopsy report she later received showed my father had had ninety-percent blockage of the arteries before he died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-four.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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