WordNet
n : a branch of the descending aorta
Wikipedia
The abdominal aorta is the largest artery in the abdominal cavity. As part of the aorta, it is a direct continuation of the descending aorta (of the thorax).
Usage examples of "abdominal aorta".
Cog then opened the guillotine clamps in both the vena cava and the abdominal aorta.
More or less by accident, I gather, in a scrambling fall, the Count's son managed to put his sword through his friend's stomach and sever his abdominal aorta.
In fact, the one thing your friend missed was what he was probably aiming for, the abdominal aorta.
I slipped to the side and, swinging the ax handle inward caught Sorath in the solar plexus, that network of nerves and ganglia high in the abdominal cavity, lying behind the stomach and in front of the upper part of the abdominal aorta.
It was an aneurysm, a weakness in the wall of his abdominal aorta.
The blade left her body at the hip with such a spray of blood that Thorn knew Khory had severed the abdominal aorta and the femoral artery as well.