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pharyngeal arch artery

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One of a series of paired embryological vascular structures formed within a pharyngeal arch; in the adult, some of these vessels give rise to the great vessels[MP]. [ MP:0002672 ]

Synonyms: PAA, embryonic aortic arch artery, branchial aortic arches, aortic arches, aortic arch, branchial arch artery, pharyngeal arch artery

Term info

database cross reference
  • Wikipedia:Aortic_arches
  • EMAPA:16684
  • EHDAA:7327
  • XAO:0000341
  • AAO:0010414
  • UMLS:C0003489 (ncithesaurus:Aortic_Arch)
  • NCIT:C32123
  • VHOG:0000122
  • EFO:0003695
  • EHDAA2:0000186
  • TAO:0005004
  • ZFA:0005004
  • EHDAA:398
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

plural term
aortic arches [ ZFA:0005004 ]

plural term
pharyngeal arch arteries

UBPROP 0000001

Paired vessels arching from the ventral to the dorsal aorta through the pharyngeal arches. [TFD][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000003

When vertebrates first appeared, they must have possessed a ventral and dorsal aorta with aortic arches between them.[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000008

Number varies - Lampreys have 8, hagfishes 15; only up to 6 appear in embryonic development in most gnathostome fishes and all tetrapods

UBPROP 0000011

The third, fourth, and sixth arches, along with the seventh intersegmental arteries and the left dorsal aorta, are the primary contributors to the normal aortic arch and its major thoracic branches

curator note

Do not confuse with arch of aorta.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gray473.png

editor note

add specific artery derivatives

has related synonym

a. arcuum pharyngeorum, aortic arch artery, branchial aortic arches, pharyngeal arch arteries, arteriae arcuum pharyngeorum, pharyngeal arch artery

has alternative id

UBERON:0004342

id

UBERON:0004363