Anatomy
pulmonary artery Audio
pul·mo·nar·y ar·ter·y
Subclass of:
Arteries
Definitions related to pulmonary artery:
  • (artery, pulmonary) One of the arteries of the thorax; in general it arises from the pulmonary trunk and branches into the lungs.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • (pulmonary trunk) Pulmonary arterial trunk, each instance of which is the trunk arising from the conus arteriosus of some right ventricle, extending upward obliquely to divide into the trunks of some right and left pulmonary arteries beneath the arch of some aorta, and conveying branch distribution of unaerated blood toward some lungs.
    Foundational Model of Anatomy
    University of Washington, 2017
  • Arterial tree, each instance of which directs unoxygenated blood to some lung.
    Foundational Model of Anatomy
    University of Washington, 2017
  • Either one of two arteries arising from the pulmonary trunk that carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Large artery originating from the superior surface of right ventricle and carrying deoxygenated blood from heart to lung.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The short wide vessel arising from the conus arteriosus of the right ventricle and conveying unaerated blood to the lungs.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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