thoracic aorta

1. 1.

   a branch of the descending aorta; divides into the iliac arteries

   Broaderaorta

   Part ofthorax

Questions about thoracic aorta

What does thoracic aorta mean?

thoracic aorta means "a branch of the descending aorta; divides into the iliac arteries".

Is thoracic aorta a common word?

thoracic aorta 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.