单词 | end-artery |
释义 | > as lemmasend-artery end-artery n. [ < German endarterie (J. Cohnheim Untersuchungen ueber d. embolischen Processe (1872) i. 18), < end n. + artery n.] Anatomy an artery which supplies almost all the blood to a part of the body and does not anastomose with itself or with other arteries. ΚΠ 1880 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. Dec. 490 Although not anatomically, the superior mesenteric is functionally an ‘end artery’. 1883 J. Coats Man. Pathol. 35 There are parts of the body in which the arteries are distributed to a perfectly definite piece of tissue, and have no anastomotic connections. In the case of such arteries, to which Cohnheim gives the name of End Arteries, the results of obstruction are very serious. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) i. 11 The retinal arteries are end-arteries and have no anastomoses at the ora serrata. < as lemmas |
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