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The aorta

Approximately 2.5 cm (1inch) in diameter and changes it diameter throughout the body.

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The largest artery in the body that goes from the heart?

Aorta.


What is the largest artery in the body that goes from the heart is called?

it is your aorta


What is the main artery that serves as passageway of the blood as it goes out of the hearts?

The main artery that serves as the passageway for blood as it leaves the heart is the aorta. The aorta is the largest artery in the body and carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body.


What is the largest artery and its function?

The largest artery in the body is the aorta, and it goes from the left ventricle to bring deoxygenated blood to all over the body


Which chamber does blood leave the heart?

After leaving the right ventricle, blood goes into the pulmonary artery. This vessel carries the blood to the lungs, where gas exchange occurs.


What is the biggest artery in the body that goes from the heart called?

The biggest artery in the body that originates from the heart is called the aorta. It carries oxygenated blood from the left ventricle of the heart to the rest of the body. The aorta arches and then descends through the chest and abdomen, branching off into smaller arteries that supply blood to various organs and tissues.


Where does the right of the heart blood goes to?

When blood exits the right side of the heart it goes to the pulmonary artery and the lungs.


After blood cells leave the heart what kind of vessels and in what order does it move?

There are two blood vessels that take the blood away from the heart. The PULMONARY ARTERY takes deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs to get oxygenated, and the AORTA which takes oxygenated blood from the heart and distributes it to the body.


From the heart blood moves into larger vessels called?

oxygenated blood is pumped into the aorta and goes to the rest of the body. deoxygenated blood is pumped into the pulmonary artery where it goes to the lungs to get oxygenated


The route of a drop of blood in the body?

A drop of blood which has been deoxygenated by the body first enters the right side of the heart from the veins. It then goes into the lungs for oxygenation and then enters the heart again in its left side. From the left side of the heart, the drop is then carried by the arteries to the areas of the body like brain, kidneys, muscles, skin etc.


What is pulmonary Artery and Vein?

The Pulmonary Artery is the only artery in the body to carry deoxygenated blood from the Heart to the lungs where it "picks up" Oxygen and "Drops off" Carbon dioxide by the process of Diffusion through the 1 cell thick air sacks in the lungs. The Pulmonary Vein is the only vein then to bring oxygenated blood anywhere in the body, the oxygenated blood goes to the Left hand side of the heart (think about it as if you were personally looking down at your own heart, not as a diagram) then the left hand side of the heart pumps it around the body through the aorta.


What is the pathway from the heart to the right foot?

Blood goes into the Aorta from the heart. Then enters into Common iliac arteries, external iliac arteries, femoral artery, popliteal artery, and then it goes into the anterior tibial and posterior tibial arteries which supply the foot.