What is the medical term for dilation of an artery?

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1. James Augustus
   

   Arteries are blood vessels that support moving blood away from the heart and help in circulating the blood into the body. This blood is normally oxygenated, except pulmonary and umbilical arteries.
   The circulatory system plays very vital role for sustaining life. The main function and responsibility of this system is to delivery of oxygen and nutrients to all cells, as well as the removal of carbon dioxide and waste products from the blood for maintenance of optimum pH, and the mobility of the elements, proteins and cells of the immune system. In most of the developed countries, the two main causes of death are myocardial infarction and stroke. Each is because of arterial system that has been slowly and progressively expose to danger by years of deterioration.
   The arterial system has the higher-pressure portion in the circulatory system. Arterial pressure fluctuates between the peak pressure during heart contraction, named as the systolic pressure, and the minimum, or diastolic pressure between contractions, the heart refills when expands. Changing in pressure within the artery makes the pulse which can be monitored in any artery, and tells heart activity. Arteries also support the heart in pumping blood. Arteries help moving blood away from the heart. Pulmonary arteries carry blood to the lungs to oxygenate the blood, main function of all arteries are to carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the tissues that require oxygen.
    

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   What is the medical term for dilation of an artery?

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