Crossword-Solution: ARTERIA 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The word arteria, which had already been applied to the trachea, as an air-containing tube, was then attached to the arteries; on account of the rough and uneven character of its walls the trachea was then called the arteria tracheia, or the rough air-tube.(31a) We call it simply the trachea, but in French the word trachee-artere is still used.

His old preceptor, Sir Astley Cooper, proud of the distinction won by his favorite pupil, said of him exultingly: "He has performed more of the great operations than any man living, or that ever did live." When he was but thirty-three years old (in 1818) he placed a ligature around the bracheo-cephalic trunk or arteria innominata, within two inches of the heart, for aneurism of the right subclavian artery.

Now Roland, in his edition of Roger's "Chirurgia," criticises both of these statements of his master, as follows: _Nota quod quamvis Rogerius dicat quod apponatur albumen ovi, non approbo, quia frigidum est naturaliter, et vena et nervus et arteria frigida sunt naturaliter, et propter frigiditatem utrorumque non potest perfecte fieri consolidatio._ And again: _Nota quod secundum Rogerium nervus omnino incisus non potest consolidari, vel conjungi nec sui.

From this trachea the pneuma passes to the lung and then, through the _vein-like artery_ (αρτηρια φλεβωδης {artêria phlebôdês}, _arteria venalis_ of mediaeval writers, the pulmonary vein of our nomenclature), to the left ventricle.

Mingled with the inspired air in the arteria venalis, freed by respiration from fuliginous matter, and become a suitable home of the vital spirit, it is attracted at length into the left ventricle of the heart by the diastole of the organ." But when Servetus comes to speak of the systemic circulation, what he has to say is as old as Galen.