Blood lines of sorts

Usage examples of aortas.

He never made it, nor did several patients, even though Hawkeye Pierce broke all speed records transporting calves’ aortas, with which Maxie hoped to replace human aortas, from a kosher butcher shop on the Lower East Side to Saint Lombard’s Hospital.

Once we have mastered the basic problems, however, we shall not merely install plastic aortas in people because their original aorta is about to fail.

Heart attack and kidney failure and beheading, drug overdoses and nicked aortas and being crushed by a falling smokestack.