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The trachea or windpipe. [Obs.] "Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach." Holland.

Barter. [Obs.] Camden.

The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.

, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.

A small artery.

The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting.

Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

rtion of the curve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

Varicose. Cirsoid aneurism, a disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.

Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen. Coeliac artery (Anat.), the artery which issues from the aorta just below the diaphragm; -- called also coeliac axis. -- Coeliac flux, Coeliac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.

course; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery. Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. Hakluyt. The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. Arbutnot.

Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.

Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.

Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.