arteries
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A stent is a small wire tube that can be inserted into coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart, if they have become narrowed or blocked.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
He said the attacks are “a systematic threat to the arteries of the world’s energy supply and to the safety of those who keep them flowing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Thursday’s fracture was on a riveted steel pipe from 1916 that is part of the system of major arteries that deliver water from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution mainlines across Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The team compared two different vascular changes: fatty narrowing of larger arteries and the widening and elongation of arteries within the brain.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
Mary and her family had spent the years after the Riots in a house on McCulloh Street, one of the central arteries in West Baltimore.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
