Blood vessel that begins at the heart

Usage examples of aorta.

Under local anesthetic, a thin, flexible catheter was passed up the femoral artery in the leg, to the aorta, and finally to the celiac axis, a network of arteries coming off the aorta to supply blood to all the upper-abdominal organs.

The only findings were minimal atheroma formation in the abdominal aorta and a benign-appearing polyp in the large intestine.

Zillner attributed this circumstance to the small size of the wound, atheroma and degeneration of the aorta and slight retraction of the inner coat, together with a possible plugging of the pericardial opening.

Note the connection of each kidney with the aorta and the inferior vena cava by the renal artery and the renal vein.

At the postmortem the cicatrix in the chest was plainly visible, and in the ascending aorta there was seen a wound, directly in the track of the knife, which was of irregular border and was occupied by a firm coagulum of blood.

Squire tells of a case in which the mother died of dilatation of the aorta, and in from twenty to thirty minutes the child was saved.

The ductus arteriosus is a small blood vessel that in the fetus joins the aorta to the pulmonary artery.

A probe passed along the aorta into the innominate protruded into the same cavity about the bifurcation of the vessel.

Within their little dark universe, they would not hesitate to devour each other, and many were the bloody battles fought in aorta and mesenteric arteries.

Warren reported a case of the abdominal aorta which commenced at the origin of the celiac axis and passed on to the surfaces of the psoas and iliac muscles, descending to the middle of the thigh The total length of the aneurysm was 19 inches, and it measured 18 inches in circumference.

The pulse is described as a wave of distension and elongation felt in an artery wall due to the contraction of the left ventricle forcing about 90 millilitres of blood into the already full aorta.

The next step was particularly critical: the placement of the arterial infusion cannula into the aorta to perfuse the coronary arteries.

Blood from her torn aorta had filled the chest cavity and also flooded the pericardial sac.

When the great vein trunk has poured blood into this pouch until it is swollen full and tight, these muscles in its walls shut down sharply and squirt or squeeze the blood in the heart-pouch into the great artery-pipe, the aorta.

Between the clavicles another pulsatile swelling was easily felt but hardly seen, which was doubtless the arch of the aorta, as by putting the fingers on it one could feel a double shock, synchronous with distention and recoil of a vessel or opening and closing of the semilunar valves.