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The aorta is the large blood vessel that comes out of your heart and contains the blood that has been oxygenated in your lungs and is ready to go to the rest of your body. It is one big tube with smaller arteries coming off of it until it needs to split in two to reach the legs, at which point it becomes the two femoral arteries.
The aorta is shaped a bit like a question mark. Get out a piece of paper and a pencil, and start by drawing a short (a couple of inches) vertical line in the middle of the page. Now from the top of that line, continue it in an arch curving up and to the right, then back toward the middle of the page, then down, like a question mark. The line that goes up at the beginning is the ascending aorta, the middle more horizontal part is the arch, and when it turns and comes back down, it is the descending aorta.
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∙ 13y agoThe aorta is the major blood vessel than leaves the heart. All the other blood vessels that go to different places in the body come off of it. It goes up from the heart towards the head for a few inches (the ascending aorta), the arch loops around the the rest of it goes down toward the feet (the descending aorta).
The part of the descending aorta that is in the abdomen the mid section) is the descending abdominal aorta. The name is redundant since there is only descending aorta in the abdomen.
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∙ 7y agoThe first section of the aorta, which starts from the left ventricle of the heart and extends to the aortic arch.
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∙ 14y agoAn artery carrying blood away from the heart
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∙ 12y agoaortic arch
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What is the section of descending aorta inferior to the diaphragm?
abdominal aorta is the portion of the descending aorta inferior to the diaphragm. it passes thru a hole in the diaphragm called aortic hiatus
What is the thickest artery in the body?
abdominal aorta actually the ascending and descending aorta from the heart is slightly larger...the abdominal is just a continuation of that vessel.
What are the 4 parts of the aorta?
The aorta consists of : the ascending aorta, the arch of the aorta, the thoracic portion of the descending aorta, and the abdominal portion of the descending aorta.
What comes off the aorta?
Three arteries come off the Aortic Arch (from left to right) 1. Brachiocephalic Artery 2. Left Common Carotid Artery 3. Left Subclavian Artery. Then After the Aorta arches it then descends behind the heart and turns into the Descending Aorta which is then classified as either the Thoracic Descending Aorta or the Abdominal Descending Aorta.
What system of the body does the descending aorta belong to?
The aorta is part of the circulatory system. It is the largest artery in the body and leads from the heart down through the abdomen and splits into smaller blood vessels that feed the lower half of the body (such as the femoral arteries).
What is the most inferior portion of the aorta?
abdominal aorta The Abdominal aorta is the longest section of the aorta, beginning at the diaphragm and spanning the abdominal cavity. The Thoracic and abdominal aorta together make up the descending aorta.
What divides the thoracic aorta from the inferior abdominal aorta?
The diaphragm divides the thoracic and abdominal aorta. These are both parts of the descending aorta, extending from the aortic arch.
What aorta turns inferiorly behind the heart?
The descending aorta.The aorta is divided in ascending, aortic arch, descending, thoracic, and abdominal.
What is the section of descending aorta inferior to the diaphragm?
abdominal aorta is the portion of the descending aorta inferior to the diaphragm. it passes thru a hole in the diaphragm called aortic hiatus
What is the thickest artery in the body?
abdominal aorta actually the ascending and descending aorta from the heart is slightly larger...the abdominal is just a continuation of that vessel.
Name all of the different sections of the aorta?
Ascending, arch, descending thoracic and abdominal
What are the 4 parts of the aorta?
The aorta consists of : the ascending aorta, the arch of the aorta, the thoracic portion of the descending aorta, and the abdominal portion of the descending aorta.
What comes off the aorta?
Three arteries come off the Aortic Arch (from left to right) 1. Brachiocephalic Artery 2. Left Common Carotid Artery 3. Left Subclavian Artery. Then After the Aorta arches it then descends behind the heart and turns into the Descending Aorta which is then classified as either the Thoracic Descending Aorta or the Abdominal Descending Aorta.
What is the difference between the ascending aorta and the thoracic aorta?
The ascending aorta extends from the aortic root (which connects the aorta to the heart), upwards toward the aortic arch. The thoracic aorta is one of two parts of the descending aorta, which extends back down towards the abdomen after the aortic arch. The thoracic aorta is the part of the descending aorta that is above the diaphragm, while the abdominal aorta is below the diaphragm.
What blood vessel supplies the descending aorta with blood?
blood travels from the ascending aorta to the aortic arch to the descending aorta
Abdominal aorta is widely patent?
The abdominal aorta is patent?
What are the subdivisions of the aorta?
The aorta is one vessel that can be conceptualized in six parts: The aortic root: connects the aorta to the left ventricle. The coronary arteries emerge from this part. Ascending aortia: Moving away from the heart towards the neck. Aortic arch: the aorta turns at this point to descend towards the rest of the body. Branches to the brain and upper extremities branch away here. Descending aorta: extends down the back and divides into the common iliac arteries. The portion above the diaphragm is the thoracic aorta, the portion below the diagram is the abdominal aorta.
