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pulmonary artery
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artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, pulmonary artery is referenced by 723 other articles, and connects out to lung, intercostal arteries and capillary.
It sits within the topics Arteries of the thorax and Respiratory system anatomy.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Precursor
- Truncus arteriosus
- System
- Cardiovascular , respiratory
- Source
- Right ventricle
- Latin
- arteria pulmonalis
- Mesh
- D011651
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
110,513 papersvia PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- artery
- Part of
- pulmonary circulation
- Image
- Alveoli diagram.png
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12774
- Commons category
- Pulmonary artery
- carries thoroughfare
- venous blood
- opposite of
- pulmonary vein
Sources (5)
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Encyclopedic overview
A pulmonary artery is an artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs. The largest pulmonary artery is the main pulmonary artery or pulmonary trunk from the heart, and the smallest ones are the arterioles, which lead to the capillaries that surround the pulmonary alveoli.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pulmonary artery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.