Aortic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Belonging or pertaining to the aorta.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the aorta.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the aorta.
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  • adjective. of or relating to the aorta
  • Word Usage
    "In one paper, with the running page heading of "the cocaine paradox," we presented evidence that in aortic strips of rabbit and isolated electrically-driven atria from guinea pig and cat, cocaine potentiated responses to norepinephrine and inhibited those to tyramine by blocking one and the same site on adrenergic nerve terminals."
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