Key facts
- Source
- Thoracic aorta
- Branches
- Celiac artery , superior mesenteric artery , inferior mesenteric artery , common iliac , ovarian artery , median sacral artery
- Vein
- Inferior vena cava
- Latin
- aorta abdominalis, pars abdominalis aortae
- Mesh
- D001012
- Ta98
- A12.2.12.001
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
40,342 papers- Abdominal aorta interruption and CHD.Cardiology in the young · 2015
- [Posterior laceration of the abdominal aorta on vertebral fracture].Revue medicale de Liege · 2023
- Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.The Central African journal of medicine · 1980
- Arch vessels' switch in frozen elephant trunk: a new technique to facilitate the second-stage endovascular thoraco-abdominal aorta repair.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2022
- Congenital coarctation of the abdominal aorta.The Journal-lancet · 1968
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- descending aorta
- Image
- Aorta segments.svg
- Connects with
- thoracic aorta
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C32038
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Encyclopedic overview
In human anatomy, the abdominal aorta is the largest artery in the abdominal cavity. As part of the aorta, it is a direct continuation of the descending aorta (of the thorax).
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “abdominal aorta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.