aortain a sentence
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She suffered a rupture of the aorta.
aorta = large artery of the heart
- How quickly would a person die if he had been shot in the aorta?† (source)
- Blamed on bad shellfish, elusive viruses, or an overlooked weakness in the aorta.† (source)
- Looking back at Bruce Lee's trawler, he sees that the dark wavelike phenomenon was a wave of blood, as though someone hosed down the deck with a giant severed aorta.† (source)
- Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness …. focusing the consciousness …. aortal dilation …. avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness …. to be conscious by choice …. blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions …. one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone …. animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct …. the animal destroys and does not…† (source)
- Years later, in medical school, David had remembered her symptoms and read late into the night to make his own diagnosis: a narrowing of the aorta, or maybe an abnormality of the heart valve.† (source)
- His abdominal aorta was blowing up like a balloon.† (source)
- Aneurisms, for instance; how else could they ever defend him in time against an aneurism of the aorta?† (source)
- On the day he removed the bowel to expose the aorta and kidneys, he saw her womb.† (source)
- Sutures—stitches—get sewn into the aorta, the superior vena cava, and the inferior vena cava.† (source)
- For example, syphilis causes an inflammation of the aorta, a very specific, peculiar reaction.† (source)
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- The first was a warning shot, the second was deliberately aimed but missed the man—no easy matter since the distance was less than ten feet—and the third shot hit him in the middle of his chest, severing the aorta.† (source)
- Their hearts thudded, they could feel the blood massing in their aortas, and they were as tense as crickets.† (source)
- "Demisse's heart shoots blood out into the aorta.† (source)
- It drains blue blood from the two cava, and returns red blood through the cannula in the aorta.† (source)
- The hepatic artery brings oxygen-rich blood to the liver from the heart via the aorta.† (source)
- When all the connections are set, the cross clamp on your aorta is removed, warm blood starts flowing into the coronaries, and ….† (source)
- Then the inferior vena cava, then the superior vena cava, then the pulmonary artery, and finally, the aorta.† (source)
- When Hema finally delivered the uterus, clamps and all, into a basin, she saw no pulsations in the abdominal aorta.† (source)
- I skipped over the part about how her heart would be removed: the inferior and superior vena cava divided, then the aorta.† (source)
- If there was a bleed from a torn aorta or its branches, then this back wall of the abdomen—the retroperitoneum—would have shown a big ugly swelling, a hematoma.† (source)
- But she stifled a sob now as she waited, her right hand buried in Sister Mary Joseph Praise's abdomen, palm down, just over the spine, waiting for a throb in the aorta, a slap to register in her fingers.† (source)
- During my last year at school, my father had an abdominal aortic aneurysm.† (source)
- I learned to recognize the slow, heaving, plateaulike pulse of a narrowed aortic valve.† (source)
- He had suffered for a long time from a constriction of the aorta, and, as he was poor, Rieux had charged no fee.† (source)
- "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart."† (source)
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