artire

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A form of artery — Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.

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Meanings

nounartire (plural artires)

plural artires

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of artery.

    My fate cries out, / And makes each petty Artire in this body, / As hardy as the Nemian Lions nerue.

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]
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