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The ascending aorta delivers oxygenated blood FROM the heart, TO the head and arms.

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What body cavity is the ascending aorta found?

Ascending aorta, arch of aorta and the descending aorta are located in your thoracic cavity.


What are the four principle divisions of the aorta?

ascending aorta arch of aorta thoracic aorta abdominal aeorta


Which aorta pump blood to left ventricle ascending aorta or descending aorta?

Blood goes in this order... Right Atrium -> Right Ventricle -> Lungs -> Left Atrium -> Left Ventricle -> Ascending Aorta -> Descending Aorta. So neither pump blood to the the Left Ventricle but the Left Ventricle pumps blood to the ascending aorta.


What does asending mean?

Ascending simply means that "x" originates at a lower point than it terminates. For example, the ascending aorta starts from the left ventricle and ends at the arch of the aorta. The left ventricle is inferior to the arch of the aorta, thus that portion of the aorta is considered ascending.


The entrance to the ascending aorta is guarded by?

The entrance to the ascending aorta is guarded by the semilunar valve. The semilunar valves are pocketlike structures attached at the point at which the pulmonary artery and the aorta leave the ventricles.


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


What blood vessel is proximal to the heart?

ascending aorta


What is the name of the missing artery between the ascending aorta and descending thoracic aorta?

The Arch, but is not missing anyway


What guards the entrance to the ascending aorta?

the aortic semilunar valve


Where does blood flow after the aortic semilunar valve?

the ascending aorta


What is the major vessels leaving the left ventricle?

Ascending aorta