adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to an artery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
arterial
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Meaning 2
Major, important.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: road or street
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A high-capacity urban road.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Arterial ends here.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
of or involving or contained in the arteries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- arterial disease
- the arterial system
- arterial blood
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From artery + -al.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: arterial — relating to a blood artery
- Catalan: arterial — relating to a blood artery
- Finnish: valtimollinen — relating to a blood artery
- French: artériel — relating to a blood artery
- Galician: arterial — relating to a blood artery
- German: arteriell — relating to a blood artery
- Hungarian: artériás — relating to a blood artery
- Ido: arteriala — relating to a blood artery
- Irish: artaireach — relating to a blood artery
- Italian: arteriale — relating to a blood artery
- Polish: tętniczy — relating to a blood artery
- Polish: arterialny — relating to a blood artery
- Polish: arteryjny — relating to a blood artery
- Portuguese: arterial — relating to a blood artery
- Punjabi: ਧਮਣੀ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ (dhamṇī sambandhī) — relating to a blood artery
- Russian: артериа́льный (arteriálʹnyj) — relating to a blood artery
- Spanish: arterial — relating to a blood artery
- Swedish: arteriell — relating to a blood artery
- Welsh: rhedwelïol — relating to a blood artery
- Polish: arteryjny — relating to an arterial road
- Portuguese: arterial — relating to an arterial road
- Welsh: prifwythiennol — relating to an arterial road
- French: artère — Translations
- Polish: arteria — Translations
- Welsh: priffordd — Translations
Real reading context