Definition of Arteria pulmonalis

1. Noun. One of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs.

Exact synonyms: Pulmonary Artery
Generic synonyms: Arteria, Arterial Blood Vessel, Artery
Specialized synonyms: Pulmonary Trunk, Truncus Pulmonalis

Medical Definition of Arteria pulmonalis

1. Origin, right ventricle of heart; distribution, it divides into the right pulmonary artery and the left pulmonary artery, which enter the corresponding lungs and branch along with the segmental bronchi. Synonym: truncus pulmonalis, arteria pulmonalis, pulmonary artery, venous artery. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arteria Pulmonalis

arteria pharyngea ascendens
arteria phrenica inferior
arteria phrenica superior
arteria plantaris lateralis
arteria plantaris medialis
arteria poplitea
arteria precunealis
arteria princeps pollicis
arteria profunda brachii
arteria profunda femoris
arteria profunda linguae
arteria pudenda
arteria pulmonalis (current term)
arteria pulmonalis dextra
arteria pulmonalis sinistra
arteria radialis
arteria radialis indicis
arteria radicularis magna
arteria ranina
arteria rectalis
arteria rectalis inferior
arteria rectalis media
arteria rectalis superior
arteria recurrens
arteria recurrens radialis
arteria recurrens tibialis anterior
arteria recurrens tibialis posterior

Literary usage of Arteria pulmonalis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1749)
"Tbe Orifice of tbe arteria pulmonalis K. ... Tbt Trunk of the arteria pulmonalis. f, c, c, c, ct Tbe Branches of tbe arteria pulmonalis accompanying the ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"half being the now, to this point, independent arteria pulmonalis and the other the nearly split aorta roots. There can, I think, be little question of the ..."

3. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Zuber, B. Ueber einen noch nie beschriebenen Fall von hochgradiger, angeborener Erweiterung der arteria pulmonalis in toto. Jahrb. ..."

4. A Manual of Histology by Salomon Stricker (1872)
"Section through the alveolar parenchyma of a Human lung, injected through the arteria pulmonalis. nn, free alveolar margins ; b, small arterial branch ..."

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