pulmonary trunk

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

   Synonymstruncus pulmonalis

   Broaderpulmonary artery

Questions about pulmonary trunk

What does pulmonary trunk mean?

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

What is another word for pulmonary trunk?

Close synonyms include truncus pulmonalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pulmonary trunk a common word?

pulmonary trunk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.