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Noun: truncus pulmonalis
  1. The artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries
    "The truncus pulmonalis was dilated on the echocardiogram";
    - pulmonary trunk

Type of: arteria pulmonalis, pulmonary artery

Encyclopedia: Truncus pulmonalis