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Definition of Aortas
1. aorta [n] - See also: aorta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aortas
Literary usage of Aortas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings: With Extracts from a Diary of Salado by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1865)
"... Leagues—Population according to the Census of 1858—Arrangement of its
Provinces—The Rivers La Plata and Amazon—aortas of South American Continent—Source ..."
2. Transactions of the Colorado State Medical Society by Colorado State Medical Society (1902)
"A. and C.—Section of abdominal aortas at bifurcation, showing lime deposits.
B.—Outside view of aortic valves; ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"It is true in the greater number of aortas showing calcification the elastic
fibres are the last to be affected, and they can be distinguished as the wavy ..."
4. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"... found that normal aortas contain about 0.15 per cent, cholesterol, while in
two atheromatous aortas he found 1.8 per cent, and 1.4 per cent., ..."
5. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"The ventral aortas between the third and fourth aortic arches persist as the ...
Opposite the eighth segment, the two aortas unite and continue caudally as ..."
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