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pulmonary artery
Sign in to saveAlso known as pulmonary arterial tree, pulmonary arteries
artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs
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.