Usually means: Main artery leaving the heart.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascending aorta: Vocabulary.com
  2. ascending aorta: Dictionary.com
  3. Ascending aorta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. ascending aorta: Rhymezone
  5. ascending aorta: FreeDictionary.org
  6. ascending aorta: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. ascending aorta: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascending aorta: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Aorta, ascending, Ascending aorta: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. Ascending aorta: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. ascending aorta: Medical dictionary
  6. Aorta, ascending, Ascending aorta: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Ascending aorta)

noun:  The ascending aorta (AAo) is a portion of the aorta commencing at the upper part of the base of the left ventricle, on a level with the lower border of the third costal cartilage behind the left half of the sternum.

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