truncus pulmonalis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspulmonary trunk

   Broaderpulmonary artery

Questions about truncus pulmonalis

What does truncus pulmonalis mean?

truncus pulmonalis 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 truncus pulmonalis?

Close synonyms include pulmonary trunk. 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 truncus pulmonalis a common word?

truncus pulmonalis 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.