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PULMONARY ARTERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs
Synonyms:
arteria pulmonalis; pulmonary artery
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pulmonary artery" is a kind of...):
arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulmonary artery"):
pulmonary trunk; truncus pulmonalis (the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries)
Context examples:
This includes the aorta, superior and inferior vena cava and the pulmonary arteries and veins.
(Great Blood Vessel, NCI Thesaurus)
Flaps of tissue that prevent regurgitation of blood from the ventricles to the atria or from the pulmonary arteries or aorta to the ventricles.
(Cardiac Valve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A congenital cardiovascular abnormality characterized by the narrowing of the lumen of the main pulmonary artery or its branches.
(Congenital Pulmonary Artery Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus)
It also can be used to deliver medications that were too potent or too toxic to be administered through peripheral access, for parenteral nutrition delivery; and for placing wires and pulmonary artery catheters.
(Central Venous Cannula Insertion, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare congenital cardiovascular abnormality in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from the left ventricle.
(Discordant Ventriculoarterial Connection, NCI Thesaurus)
The exception is blood within the pulmonary artery which carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
(Arterial Blood, NCI Thesaurus)
The measurement of the mean left pulmonary arterial pressure, as measured by a catheter introduced into the distal pulmonary artery, is low.
(Low Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)
A congenital vascular abnormality that affects the great vessels and/or aortic arch. Representative examples include double aortic arch, aortic coarctation, and absence of a pulmonary artery.
(Great Vessels Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare, congenital anomaly in the aorta in which a communication exists between the ascending aorta and the pulmonary artery.
(Congenital Aortic Septal Defect, NCI Thesaurus)
A network of nerves that arises from the superior cardiac branch of the sympathetic trunk and lower superior cervical branch of the vagus which innervates the aortic arch, coronary vessels, pulmonary artery, and the heart.
(Cardiac Nerve Plexus, NCI Thesaurus)
