which compose the course of academical or collegiate education. Hence, degrees in the arts; master
and bachelor of arts.
In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily
necessity.
Irving.
Syn. — Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill; dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession; business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity.
See Science.
Artemia
(||Ar*te"mi*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'A`rtemis, a Greek goddess.] (Zoöl.) A genus of phyllopod Crustacea
found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.
Artemisia
(Ar`te*mi"si*a) (ärte"mizh"i*a or ärte"mish"i*a), n. [L. Artemisia, Gr. 'Artemisi`a.] (Bot.) A
genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium,
or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.
Arteriac
(Ar*te"ri*ac) a. [L. arteriacus, Gr. . See Artery.] Of or pertaining to the windpipe.
Arterial
(Ar*te"ri*al) a. [Cf. F. artériel.]
1. Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.
2. Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad.
Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the
lungs.
Arterialization
(Ar*te`ri*al*i*za"tion) n. (Physiol.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial
blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; — called
also aëration and hematosis.
Arterialize
(Ar*te"ri*al*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arterialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Arterializing.] To transform,
as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.
Arteriography
(Ar*te`ri*og"ra*phy), n. [Gr. + - graphy.] A systematic description of the arteries.
Arteriole
(Ar*te"ri*ole) n. [NL. arteriola, dim. of L. arteria: cf. F. artériole.] A small artery.
Arteriology
(Ar*te`ri*ol"o*gy) n. [Gr. + - logy.] That part of anatomy which treats of arteries.
Arteriotomy
(Ar*te`ri*ot"o*my) n. [L. arteriotomia, Gr. + a cutting.]
1. (Med.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting.
2. That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries.
Arteritis
(||Ar`te*ri"tis) n. [Artery + -etis.] Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison.
Artery
(Ar"ter*y) n.; pl. Arteries [L. arteria windpipe, artery, Gr. .]
1. The trachea or windpipe. [Obs.] "Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach." Holland.
2. (Anat.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They
have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.
