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AORTIC ARCH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the aorta that arches and turns downward

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("aortic arch" is a kind of...):

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

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The portion of the aorta that emerges from the left ventricle and precedes the aortic arch.

(Ascending Aorta, NCI Thesaurus)

Any portion of the aorta including the ascending and descending aorta, and aortic arch or a portion of the aortic orifice of the left ventricle.

(Aortic Segment, 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)

A network of nerves that arises from the superior cardiac branch of the sympathetic trunk and lower superior cervical branch of the vagus which innervates the aortic arch, coronary vessels, pulmonary artery, and the heart.

(Cardiac Nerve Plexus, NCI Thesaurus)