Artery
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Arteries" redirects here. For specific arteries, see List of arteries of the human body.
For other uses, see Artery (disambiguation).
An artery (from Greek ἀρτηρία (artēríā) 'windpipe, artery')[1] is a blood vessel in humans and most other animals that takes oxygenated blood away from the heart in the systemic circulation to one or more parts of the body. Exceptions that carry deoxygenated blood are the pulmonary arteries in the pulmonary circulation that carry blood to the lungs for oxygenation, and the umbilical arteries in the fetal circulation that carry deoxygenated blood to the placenta.
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Latin | arteria (plural: arteriae) |
MeSH | D001158 |
TA98 | A12.0.00.003 A12.2.00.001 |
TA2 | 3896 |
FMA | 50720 |
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Arteries contrast with veins, which carry deoxygenated blood back towards the heart; or in the pulmonary and fetal circulations carry oxygenated blood to the lungs and fetus.