Pulmonary Trunk (Noun)
Meaning
The artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The pulmonary trunk arises from the pulmonary valve in the right ventricle and bifurcates into the right and left pulmonary arteries shortly after.
- After birth the foramen ovale closes, the pulmonary trunk widens and develops as part of the mature cardiovascular system.
- Because it splits almost immediately, the pulmonary trunk does not receive an external elastic lamina until just before the pulmonary bifurcation.
- Right behind the aorta is the main pulmonary artery also called pulmonary trunk from the pulmonary valve it receives oxygen-poor blood from the heart's right ventricle.
- Eventually this is conjoined by pulmonary valve where further pumping directs into a constricted but broader duct-like form termed as the pulmonary trunk in itself within and concomitant off branch tracts including specifically further into divisions by terminalised vascular means a double-station known then from ventriculus termed later namely just branches away such which trunk makes shorter resultant later separation dividing short dual separated smaller now thus result respectively this latter simply "Lungs'.