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abdominal aorta

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001516

Abdominal part of aorta: the distal part of the descending aorta, which is the continuation of the thoracic part and gives rise to the inferior phrenic, lumbar, median sacral, superior and inferior mesenteric, middle suprarenal, renal, and testicular or ovarian arteries, and celiac trunk[BTO]. The abdominal aorta is the largest artery in the abdominal cavity. As part of the aorta, it is a direct continuation of descending aorta(of the thorax). [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_aorta BTO:0002976 ]

Synonyms: pars abdominalis aortae, descending abdominal aorta, abdominal part of aorta

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Gray531.png

editor note

Many of the branches of the abdominal aorta in mammals may be branches of the dorsal aorta in other vertebrates

has related synonym

aorta abdominalis, pars abdominalis aortae, abdominal part of aorta

id

UBERON:0001516

prefLabel

Abdominal aorta

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606