Defn: 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. Etym: [L. arteriacus, Gr. Artery.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the windpipe.
ARTERIAL
Ar*te"ri*al, a. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.]
Defn: To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.