A normal artery is like a new rubber band: flexible, strong, and elastic.

See a picture of a normal artery and an artery narrowed by plaque .

Ultrasound pictures have shown that large plaques often exist in what angiogram X-rays portray as normal arteries.

The arteries of the blood-brain barrier are much more selective than normal arteries.

An acute myocardial infarction-like syndrome with normal coronary arteries has a good prognosis.

Exercise or dipyridamole induces widening (vasodilation) of normal coronary arteries.

Figure 1 shows a color Doppler ultrasound picture of blood flowing through a normal artery (red) and vein (blue).

This cardiac catheterization confirmed the cardiomyopathy but showed normal coronary arteries.

The total elastin ranges from 58 to 75% of the weight of the dry defatted artery in normal canine arteries.

"The thing that's striking to me about this data is that we've never found the organisms in a normal artery," he said.