AORTA

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 3

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The great arterial trunk which i ues from the left ventricle of the heart. After death it is found empty; whence the older anatomists, supposing that it was for the conveyance of air, gave it the above name. It is single in Mammals and birds; double in most reptiles, and in the Cephalopods; triple in the Crustaceans. [s. 74]