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• Distributing artery — Distributing arteries (or muscular arteries) are medium sized arteries that draw blood from an elastic artery and branch into resistance vessels including small arteries and arterioles. In contrast to the mechanism elastic arteries use to store… …   Wikipedia

• Artery — A vessel that carries blood that is high in oxygen content away from the heart to the farthest reaches of the body. Since blood in arteries is usually full of oxygen, the hemoglobin in the red blood cells is oxygenated. The resultant form of… …   Medical dictionary

• Ophthalmic artery — Artery: Ophthalmic artery The ophthalmic artery and its branches …   Wikipedia

• segments of middle cerebral artery — the four segments into which the middle cerebral artery is divided, M1–M4 in clinical terminology. The M1 segment is the sphenoid part (pars sphenoidalis), the horizontal portion of the vessel from the termination of the internal carotid artery …   Medical dictionary

• Suprascapular artery — Infobox Artery Name = Suprascapular artery Latin = arteria suprascapularis, arteria transversa scapulae GraySubject = 148 GrayPage = 582 Caption = Thyrocervical trunk with branches, including suprascapular artery. Caption2 = The scapular and… …   Wikipedia

• Superior gluteal artery — Infobox Artery Name = PAGENAME Latin = arteria glutea superior GraySubject = 155 GrayPage = 622 Caption = Left gluteal region, showing surface markings for arteries and sciatic nerve. Caption2 = Internal iliac artery and some of its branches.… …   Wikipedia

• Iliac branch of iliolumbar artery — Infobox Artery Name = PAGENAME Latin = ramus iliacus arteriae iliolumbalis GraySubject = 155 GrayPage = 621 Caption = The veins of the right half of the male pelvis. (Iliolumbar artery not labeled, but Iliolumbar vein visible at center right.)… …   Wikipedia

• Elastic artery — Code TH H3.09.02.0.01010 An elastic artery (or large elastic artery or conducting artery) is an artery with a large number of collagen and elastin filaments in the tunica media, which gives it the ability to stretch in response to each pulse.… …   Wikipedia

• Superficial branch of transverse cervical artery — Infobox Artery Name = PAGENAME Latin = ramus superficialis arteriae transversae colli GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Superficial and deep branches from the transverse cervical artery. Caption2 = BranchFrom = transverse cervical artery… …   Wikipedia

• Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, The — • The European monarchy whose dominions have for their main life distributing artery the River Danube, in its course from Engelhartszell, near Passau, to Orsova. South of the Danube lie the Austrian Alpine provinces and the provinces of Carinthia …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Austro-Hungarian Monarchy —     The Austro Hungarian Monarchy     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Austro Hungarian Monarchy     By this name is designated the European monarchy whose dominions have for their main life distributing artery the River Danube, in its course from… …   Catholic encyclopedia