Editing Artery (section)

{{short description|Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart}}
{{redirect|Arteries|specific arteries|List of arteries of the human body}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Infobox anatomy
| Name        = Artery
| Latin       = arteria ([[plural]]: arteriae)
| Greek      = ἀρτηρία
| Image       = Artery.svg
| Caption     = Diagram of an artery
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| Caption2    = 
| Precursor   = 
| System      = [[Circulatory system]]
| Artery      = 
| Vein        = 
| Nerve       = 
| Lymph       = 
}}
An '''artery''' ({{Etymology|gre|''ἀρτηρία'' (artēríā)}})<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221012173429/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29rthri%2Fa ἀρτηρία], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> is a [[blood vessel]] in humans and most other animals that takes [[oxygenated blood]] away from the [[heart]] in the [[systemic circulation]] to one or more parts of the body. Exceptions that carry [[deoxygenated blood]] are the [[pulmonary arteries]] in the [[pulmonary circulation]] that carry blood to the [[lung]]s for oxygenation, and the [[umbilical arteries]] in the [[fetal circulation]] that carry deoxygenated blood to the [[placenta]]. It consists of a multi-layered '''artery wall''' wrapped into a tube-shaped channel.

Arteries contrast with [[vein]]s, which carry deoxygenated blood back towards the heart; or in the pulmonary and fetal circulations carry oxygenated blood to the lungs and fetus respectively.