Cardiovascular system
Pulmonary trunk
Truncus pulmonalis
- System
- Cardiovascular system
- Regions
- Trunk
- Part of
- Pulmonary arteries
DescriptionUnreviewed
A pulmonary artery is an artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs.
The largest pulmonary artery is the main pulmonary artery or pulmonary trunk from the heart, and the smallest ones are the arterioles, which lead to the capillaries that surround the pulmonary alveoli.
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Parts
Names
- Latin
- Truncus pulmonalis
- English
- Pulmonary trunk
- French
- Tronc pulmonaire
- Spanish
- Tronco pulmonar
- Portuguese
- Tronco pulmonar