PULMONARY TRUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulmonary trunk mean? 

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

1. the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULMONARY TRUNK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

pulmonary trunk; truncus pulmonalis

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

arteria pulmonalis; pulmonary artery (one of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs)

 Context examples 

A rare congenital cardiovascular disorder characterized by the failure of the embryologic structure truncus arteriosus to divide into the aorta and pulmonary trunk.

(Persistent Truncus Arteriosus, NCI Thesaurus)