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动脉

dòng mài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 動脈

动脉 (dòng mài) means "artery". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 动脉 means

1. artery

The characters in 动脉

• 动dòng(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace
• 脉màiarteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

Example sentences

• 将血压带 (或止血带) 套在手臂上，逐渐增加压力，直到前臂发绀，桡动脉搏动几乎消失。
  A blood-pressure band, or tourniquet, is placed about the arm, and the pressure increased until the forearm becomes cyanosed and the radial pulse is almost obliterated.

Words starting with 动脉

• 动脉硬化dòng mài yìng huàhardening of the arteries; arteriosclerosis
• 动脉瘤dòng mài liúaneurysm
• 动脉粥样硬化dòng mài zhōu yàng yìng huàatherosclerosis

Words containing 动脉

• 主动脉zhǔ dòng màiaorta; principal artery
• 大动脉dà dòng màimain artery (blood vessel); fig. main highway; arterial road
• 微动脉wēi dòng màicapillary artery
• 股动脉gǔ dòng màifemoral artery
• 冠状动脉guān zhuàng dòng màicoronary artery
• 基底动脉jī dǐ dòng màibasilar artery (central artery of the brain)
• 肺动脉fèi dòng màipulmonary artery
• 颈动脉jǐng dòng màicarotid artery (medicine)
• 腘动脉guó dòng màipopliteal artery (anatomy)
• 冠状动脉旁路移植手术guān zhuàng dòng mài páng lù yí zhí shǒu shùcoronary bypass operation
• 冠状动脉旁通手术guān zhuàng dòng mài páng tōng shǒu shùcoronary bypass operation

Where 动脉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dīng–dōng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dòng mài correctly.
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