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arterialise

arterialise is the alternative form of arterialize.

Meaning of arterialize

Verb

arterialize (third-person singular simple present arterializes, present participle arterializing, simple past and past participle arterialized)

  1. To convert venous blood into arterial blood (by the absorption of oxygen in the lungs)

Forms of arterialise

third-person singular presentarterialises
present participlearterialising
past participlearterialised
pastarterialised

Origin of arterialise

From arterial + -ise.

Words formed from arterialise

Questions about arterialise

What is arterialise the alternative form of?
Arterialise is the alternative form of arterialize.

Words near arterialise in the dictionary

  1. arterial roads
  2. arterial street
  3. arterial streets
  4. arterialisation
  5. arterialisations
  6. arterialise
  7. arterialised
  8. arterialises
  9. arterialising
  10. arterialization
  11. arterializations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arterialise (page history and authors); arterialize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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