ARTERIA PULMONALIS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs

Synonyms:

arteria pulmonalis; pulmonary artery

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("arteria pulmonalis" is a kind of...):

arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arteria pulmonalis"):

pulmonary trunk; truncus pulmonalis (the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries)

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