Usually means: Main artery from the heart.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. aorta: Merriam-Webster
  2. aorta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aorta: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aorta: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aorta: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aorta, aorta: Wordnik
  7. aorta: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Aorta: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. aorta: Wiktionary
  10. aorta: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. aorta: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. aorta: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. aorta: Dictionary.com
  14. aorta: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Aorta (band), Aorta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Aorta: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. aorta: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. aorta: Rhymezone
  19. Aorta: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. aorta: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. aorta: FreeDictionary.org
  22. aorta: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. aorta: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. aorta: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. aorta: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Aorta, aorta: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. aorta: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Aorta: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Endometrial Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Aorta: Merck Manuals
  7. Aorta: MedFriendly Glossary
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Aorta: Anatomy of the Human Body
  10. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  11. Aorta: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  12. aorta: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. aorta: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  14. The Aorta, aorta: Medical dictionary
  15. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  16. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  17. Aorta: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AORTA: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Biological Control (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aorta: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See aortae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
noun:  (figuratively) The liveliest part of something.

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