动脉血

動脈血
dòngmàixiě
noun #33,404

Meanings

  1. 1 arterial blood (oxygenated blood flowing in arteries)

Examples

HSK 4
动脉血鲜红色
Dòngmàixiě shì xiānhóngsè de.
Arterial blood is bright red.
HSK 7-9
动脉血含氧量静脉血
Dòngmàixiě hányǎngliàng bǐ jìngmàixiě gāo de duō.
Arterial blood has a much higher oxygen content than venous blood.
HSK 7-9
Tā bèi cìzhòng dòngmài, dòngmàixiě pēnyǒng ér chū.
He was stabbed in the artery, and arterial blood spurted out.

Tips

usage
Medical/anatomical pairing of 动脉 (artery) + (blood). Pairs with 静脉血 (venous blood). also has the colloquial reading xuè - both are correct here, but xiě is more common in everyday speech and 动脉血 specifically tends to be read with xiě.

Stroke Order

dòng
mài
xuè