AORTOGRAPHY


Meaning of AORTOGRAPHY in English

noun

X-ray examination of the aorta after an opaque substance has been injected into it

COMMENT: the aorta is about 45 centimetres long. It leaves the left ventricle, rises (where the carotid arteries branch off), then goes downwards through the abdomen and divides into the two iliac arteries. The aorta is the blood vessel which carries all arterial blood from the heart

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