ascending aorta
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- noun
- /əˈsɛndɪŋ eɪˈɔrtə/
- Specialized
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aorta ascendente
- Surgeons successfully repaired the damaged ascending aorta during the operation.
Examples
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The limitations of TTE include poor visualization of intramural hematoma and inability for thorough identification of the upper segment of the ascending aorta or entry tear location.
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When the tracing in the ascending aorta that is under consideration is initiated, forward or backward tracing is therefore performed adaptively according to the flow direction.
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After my sister's death, I did research and learned we seem to have a genetic line with the ascending aorta.
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A multiplane approach permits visualization of the entire ascending aorta in most patients.
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A CT chest showed the broken K wires lying in the superior mediastinum and middle mediastinum abutting the ascending aorta and main pulmonary artery.
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Stable homogeneous packing was achieved, and the balloon was progressively deflated after testing the material stability by successful injection into the ascending aorta (Fig. 3).
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The blood is pumped into the ascending aorta from the left ventricle of the heart.
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An ultrasound revealed that the ascending aorta was narrower than normal.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'ascending' (moving upward) combined with 'aorta' (the main artery from the heart) yields the portion of the aorta that rises from the heart. Though anatomical vocabulary is specialized, the semantic relation is transparent and follows standard modifier+noun composition that a learner who knows both words can infer.
Etymology
The noun ascending aorta comes from a simple picture: the main artery, the aorta, leaves the heart and its first part goes up, so that part is called the ascending section. That's why the name means the 'upward' part of the main artery from the heart.