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arteria
Greek · ancient
"the windpipe, an air-carrying vessel"
originally meant windpipe, since early anatomists believed arteries carried air
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artery
English · 1300s
"a blood vessel carrying blood from the heart"
settled as the word for the blood vessels carrying blood from the heart
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