アーテリー

noun

artery

Medical/anatomical term for a blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart. The native Japanese term 動脈 (どうみゃく) is far more common in everyday and clinical contexts; アーテリー is a direct English loan used mainly in technical or academic settings, or in compound terms.

See also: 動脈

• アーテリーは動どう脈みゃくのことで、英えい語ごからの借しゃく用よう語ごです。

  アーテリー means artery, and is a loanword from English.

• この医い学がく書しょでは、動どう