PULMONARY ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulmonary artery mean? 

• PULMONARY ARTERY (noun)
  The noun PULMONARY ARTERY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PULMONARY ARTERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULMONARY ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria pulmonalis; pulmonary artery

Hypernyms ("pulmonary artery" is a kind of...):

arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulmonary artery"):

pulmonary trunk; truncus pulmonalis (the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries)

 Context examples 

A branch of the right main bronchus that arises above the pulmonary artery and connects to the superior lobe of the right lung.

(Eparterial Branch of the Right Main Bronchus, NCI Thesaurus)

The portion of the right main bronchus that is below the right pulmonary artery.

(Hyparterial Branch of the Right Main Bronchus, NCI Thesaurus)

An acyanotic congenital cardiovascular abnormality characterized by the transposition of the aorta and the pulmonary artery.

(Levo-Transposition of the Great Arteries, NCI Thesaurus)

A cyanotic congenital cardiovascular abnormality characterized by the transposition of the aorta and the pulmonary artery.

(Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare congenital cardiovascular abnormality in which both the aorta and the pulmonary artery arise from the right ventricle.

(Double Outlet Right Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

The measurement of the mean left arterial pressure, as measured by a catheter introduced into the distal pulmonary artery, is high.

(High Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)

As a consequence, blood from the aorta mixes with blood from the pulmonary artery.

(Patent Ductus Arteriosus, NCI Thesaurus)

The measurement of the mean left arterial pressure, as measured by a catheter introduced into the distal pulmonary artery, is normal.

(Normal Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel arising from the bifurcation of the pulmonary artery that carries deoxygenated blood to the left lung.

(Left Pulmonary Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Narrowing of the lumen of the right or left pulmonary artery branch.

(Branch Pulmonary Artery Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus)