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ABDOMINAL AORTA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A branch of the descending aorta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("abdominal aorta" is a kind of...):

aorta (the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries)

Holonyms ("abdominal aorta" is a part of...):

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

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 Context examples: 

A branch of the abdominal aorta that supplies blood to the intestines.

(Mesenteric Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The major arterial trunk that carries oxygenated blood from the left ventricle into the ascending aorta behind the heart, the aortic arch, through the thorax as the descending aorta and through the abdomen as the abdominal aorta; it bifurcates into the left and right common iliac arteries.

(Aorta, NCI Thesaurus)