{"id":1375,"date":"2016-03-25T12:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2016-04-01T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:52:39","slug":"aorta-pulmonary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2016\/03\/25\/aorta-pulmonary\/","title":{"rendered":"Aorta and Pulmonary Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often students mistake the pulmonary artery for the aorta. \u00a0The pulmonary artery, or pulmonary trunk, is the most anterior vessel found on the heart; it is indicated below with a blue pencil. \u00a0The aorta lies behind the pulmonary trunk, indicated with the red pencil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-external.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1376 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-external.jpg\" alt=\"heart-external\" width=\"458\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-external.jpg 458w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-external-140x250.jpg 140w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-external-281x500.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the heart is dissected, the path of blood through the pulmonary artery and the aorta can be visualized using the pencils as markers. \u00a0Blood flowing out of the \u00a0pulmonary artery will travel to the left and right lungs. \u00a0 Blood travelling out the aorta will deliver blood to all of the body tissues. \u00a0 The contraction of the left ventricle is a very strong contraction called ventricular systole, which must be powerful enough to send blood out the aorta and to the body, and then get the blood back to the heart through the veins. \u00a0 This is why the wall of the left ventricle is thicker than the walls of the right ventricle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-internal.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1377 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-internal.jpg\" alt=\"heart-aorta-internal\" width=\"458\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-internal.jpg 458w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-internal-140x250.jpg 140w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-aorta-internal-281x500.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo shows the \u00a0aorta&#8217;s location as it leaves the left ventricle, and the location of the pulmonary artery which connects to the right side of the heart. \u00a0 Beginning anatomists are advised to determine the left and right side of the heart by the thickness of the ventricle &#8211; the left side is much thicker. \u00a0 \u00a0It is also interesting to note that the pulmonary and aorta vessels cross each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often students mistake the pulmonary artery for the aorta. \u00a0The pulmonary artery, or pulmonary trunk, is the most anterior vessel found on the heart; it is indicated below with a blue pencil. \u00a0The aorta lies behind the pulmonary trunk, indicated with the red pencil. When the heart is dissected, the path of blood through the pulmonary artery and the aorta can be visualized using the pencils as markers. \u00a0Blood flowing out of the \u00a0pulmonary artery will travel to the left and right lungs. \u00a0 Blood travelling out the aorta will deliver blood to all of the body tissues. \u00a0 The <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,21,105,251,61,51,95,76],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-anatomy","tag-aorta","tag-blood","tag-circulation","tag-dissection","tag-heart","tag-pulmonary","tag-ventricle","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}