Aortic arch sentence example
aortic arch
- Left brachial artery arising from a common innominate trunk, instead of coming off separately from the aortic arch.
- The aortic arch is the first artery to carry blood as it leaves the heart.
- High blood pressure (hypertension) affects parts of the body supplied by arteries that branch off the aortic arch above the narrowing.
- Infants born with DiGeorge sequence can have heart defects such as a malformed aortic arch and tetralogy of Fallot.