Geoffrey West

Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.

British Physicist

Sam Kean

The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

American Writer

Andy Dunn

A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.

American Businessman

George Vecsey

Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

American Author

William Osler

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Canadian Scientist

Used primarily in medical or scientific contexts, not in everyday conversation.

Medical Term

Associated with serious medical conditions, conveying a sense of urgency or importance when mentioned.

Serious Condition

Refers to a specific part of human anatomy, understanding its location helps comprehend medical discussions.

Anatomy Specific

 pumped blood from an aorta to another part of the heart and as you could see at the bottom there it was controlled by a computer controller and if you ever thought that software reliability was very important get one of these inside of you now what a research team did was

All your devices can be...

 because the atria have several incoming veins attached. So without them there, the only vessels remaining are the two major heart the aorta and pulmonary artery, which rise like white columns from between the ventricles. It looks -- and really is -- very simple.

How the heart actually...

 The oxygen rich blood returns to the heart through the left atrium where it goes to the left ventricle. Then by way of the aorta artery the fresh blood is pumped throughout the body before the process repeats itself. That process happens with every heartbeat.

Heart 101 PIPE National...

 not far from here. And I memorized everything. I memorized in my anatomy class the origins and exertions of every muscle, every branch of every artery that came off the aorta, differential diagnoses obscure and common. I even knew the differential diagnosis

Brian Goldman: Doctors...

 I was diagnosed with a large aneurysm at the base of my thoracic aorta. This led to open-heart surgery. This is the actual real email from my doctor right there. Now, when I got this, I was -- press Caps Lock -- absolutely freaked out, okay?

3 rules to spark...

 pumped blood from an aorta to another part of the heart, and as you can see at the bottom there, it was controlled by a computer controller, and if you ever thought that software liability was very important, get one of these inside of you.

Avi Rubin: All your...

 and blood is allowed to flow into the aorta. Doctors carefully monitor the new heart to ensure it’s beating on its own before sewing the recipient back up. Even after the procedure is complete, there's still work to be done.

How does heart...

 and so I kissed him the way you kiss a newborn baby, terrified of their fragility. Later that afternoon, when the bad news had been laid out for us -- fractured skull, bleeds on his brain, a possible torn aorta

A love letter to realism...

 replace it with a plastic valve and a plastic aorta. And most importantly, commit you to a lifetime of anticoagulation therapy. Normally, warfarin. The thought of the surgery was not attractive.

Tal Golesworthy: How I...

 and I was one of the lucky physicians who was invited in to help. I had a chance to rule out a stroke in this chimpanzee and make sure that this gorilla didn't have a torn aorta,

Aorta