large artery

基本解释

Last Friday he suffered a torn aorta, a large artery that carries blood from the heart to the body.
上周五，理查德•霍尔布鲁克的一条心脏供血主动脉破裂出血。
So if you are measuring brachial blood pressure which is a much smaller tube than the central large artery and the more pliable the vessel is the less likely there is to be a difference.
因此，如果在检测肱动脉（一个远小于中心大动脉的血管）血压时，血管越柔韧，产生压力误差的可能性就越小。
The large artery pathology is worser than the prognosis of small artery.
大动脉病变较小动脉病变组预后差。

Last Friday he suffered a torn aorta, a large artery that carries blood from the heart to the body.

In the future, Fayad predicts, adults judged to be at moderate-to-high risk of heart disease based on blood tests may have their artery walls scanned using a combination of high-resolution CT (good for quickly examining large sections of arteries) and MRI (better at determining the chemical composition of plaque).
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But the first signs of real proof are likely to come from several expensive imaging trials Pfizer is funding, including a large, two-year trial being by conducted by Steven Nissen of The Cleveland Clinic to measure changes in artery plaque in patients who take the drug.
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