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Definition of Right coronary artery

1. Noun. Arises from the right aortic sinus; supplies the right side of the heart.

Medical Definition of Right coronary artery

1. Origin, right aortic sinus; distribution, it passes around the right side of the heart in the coronary sulcus, giving branches to the right atrium and ventricle, including the atrioventricular branches and the posterior interventricular branch. Synonym: arteria coronaria dextra. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Coronary Artery

Literary usage of Right coronary artery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1901)
"There was extensive atheroma of the right coronary artery, so as almost to ... Thr right coronary artery laid open so as to make visible the masses of ..."

2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"In addition to its terminal branches, the right coronary artery supplies branches to the roots of the pulmonary artery and the aorta, and to Left pulmonary ..."

3. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"its course the right coronary artery gives, besides the offsets ly noticed, small branches to the right auricle and ventricle, and Lso to the first part of ..."

4. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1895)
"The explanation of such an additional artery is, that it merely represents an independent origin for a normal branch of the right coronary artery. ..."

5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"Crossing it diagonally is the inferior interventricular groove with the descending branch of the anterior or right coronary artery and middle cardiac vein. ..."

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