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aorta
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
Used in print (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)The intimal surface of the aorta was covered with confluent , yellow-brown , hard , friable plaques along its entire course , and there was a marked narrowing of the orifices of the large major visceral arteries . |
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