A.wind-pipe, “ἡ ἀ. μόλις ἀναπνεούσῃ ὑπεσύριζε” Hp.Epid.7.25, cf.39, Pl.Ti.70d, Arist.HA493a8, de An.420b29; ἡτραχεῖα ἀ. (cf. 11) Timoth. ap. Meno.Iatr.8.29, v. l. in Dsc.2.50, Luc.Hist. Conscr.7, S.E.M.9.178, etc.: in pl., bronchial tubes, “ἆσθμα . . περὶ στήθεα καὶ ἀρτηρίας” Hp.Epid.7.12 (vulg. but prob. l. -ίην, = trachea), cf. Pl.Ti.78c; “πλεύμονος ἀρτηρίαι” S.Tr.1054.
II. artery, as distinct from a vein, “αἱ φλεβῶν καὶ ἀρτηριῶν κοινωνίαι” Hp.Art.45, cf. 69; “τὰς δὲ φλέβας καὶ τὰς ἀ. συνάπτειν εἰς ἀλλήλας . . τῇ αἰσθήσει φανερὸν εἶναι” Arist.Spir.484a1; ἀ. λεῖαι (cf. I) Gal.UP8.1, al.; ἀ. φλεβώδης pulmonary vein, ib.6.10; believed to contain πνεῦμα by Erasistr., ib. 17, and derived fr. ἀήρ, τηρέω by Bacch. ap. Erot. s.v. ἀορτέων.