descending aorta

Definition

large artery passing vertically through the chest and abdomen

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Description from Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/), available under CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

Sub-structures

• abdominal aorta
• descending thoracic aorta

Neighbouring structures

• aortic bifurcation
• thoracic aorta
• arch of aorta
• ascending aorta

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Identifiers

TA2

4185

TA98

A12.2.10.001

FMA

3784

UBERON

0001514

Wikidata

Q3270170