aorta

/ey-awr-tuh/US // eɪˈɔr tə //UK // (eɪˈɔːtə) //

主动脉,大动脉,主脉,动脉

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n.名词 noun

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plural a·or·tas, a·or·tae [ey-awr-tee]. /eɪˈɔr ti/. Anatomy.
- : the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.

The cause was a torn aorta, said his daughter Susannah Lannoy.
The blade pierced his liver and diaphragm, missing his heart and aorta by a fraction of an inch.
That blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery.
His aorta and amygdala do not receive this information by automatic transfer.
The closer the tear occurs to the root of the aorta, where it emerges from the heart, the more dangerous it can be.
The largest artery, the aorta arches up from the heart, carrying blood throughout the body.
Firstly, the womb communicates with the heart by the mediation of those arteries which come from the aorta.
The branches which set off at X, X, are those by which the intestines are supplied by vessels from the aorta.
With one throb, the blood is sent from the right ventricle into the lungs, and from the left ventricle into the aorta.
The heart has a pair of venous ostia, often blending into one, and an anterior arterial aorta.
At this part opposite the level of the dorsal aorta the two sheets, viz.