artery

The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.

A fragment penetrated her shoulder, missing a major artery by an inch.

The horn, or broken rib, had hit an artery, and within a few minutes, or seconds, he was dead.

Dr. Ornish became famous in the 1990s for showing reversal of coronary artery disease using a very low-fat, near-vegetarian diet.

A bullet had struck a femoral artery and it was gushing blood as she kept firing.

On the other hand, his feet are so cold from the artery being severed that they anticipate mortification.

They scoured every main artery and side road and cart track for miles in every direction, he and Johnny the Itch.

The vital artery was missed, as he had anticipated, and the result was as he had foreseen.

On catching him I found that he had somehow severed an artery in his tail, and I had to improvise a tourniquet to stop the flow.

It would be the bursting of the ligature of the artery; and once under the water with its heavy burden, no power could raise it.