Descending aorta

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Artery: Descending aorta
Plan of the branches.
The thoracic aorta, viewed from the left side.
Latin	pars descendens aortae, aorta descendens
Gray's	subject #153 598
Source	Aorta
Branches	Thoracic aorta Abdominal aorta
MeSH	Aorta,+Thoracic
Dorlands / Elsevier	p_07/12616698

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Overview

The descending aorta is divided into two portions, the thoracic and abdominal, in correspondence with the two great cavities of the trunk in which it is situated ^{[1] [1] [1] [1]}

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• SUNY Figs 19:04-03 - "Left side of the mediastinum."
• Cat dissection

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v • d • e List of arteries of torso - chest
Pulmonary / coronary	right coronary: SA nodal - AV nodal - atrial - right marginal - posterior interventricular left coronary: anterior interventricular - left circumflex - left marginal
Ascending aorta	aortic arch - brachiocephalic (thyreoidea ima) - common carotid
Subclavian	internal thoracic: anterior intercostal - thymic - pericardiacophrenic - terminal (musculophrenic, superior epigastric) costocervical trunk: highest intercostal (posterior intercostal 1-2) - deep cervical
Descending / thoracic aorta	visceral: bronchial - esophageal - mediastinal parietal: posterior intercostal 3-11 - subcostal - superior phrenic

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