A general disease or pathological condition affecting the arteries, causing inflammation, degeneration, or functional impairment.
Formed from 'arteria' (artery) with the medical suffix '-asis' (condition or state), following the pattern of disease nomenclature established in 19th-century medical Latin.
The '-asis' ending became medical shorthand for 'something wrong'—similar to psoriasis (skin disease) or stasis (blocked condition)—making it easy for doctors to instantly recognize it's describing a systemic arterial problem.
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