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Six example sentences with aorta, each labelled with its topic.
Surgeons repaired the widened aorta with a fabric sleeve, and the patient walked the corridor two days later.
Medicine
Endurance training thickens the wall of the aorta slightly, one reason a trained cyclist's resting pulse sits so low.
Fitness
Leonardo drew the aorta so precisely that modern anatomists recognize the swirl of flow he sketched beside it.
Art
A giraffe's aorta has walls thick enough to push blood two metres uphill to a brain held high above its heart.
Science
Engineers model blood flow through the aorta with software borrowed from aircraft design, since both deal with turbulent fluid.
Technology
Vesalius drew the aorta branching from the heart in 1543, correcting errors that had been copied from Galen for centuries.
History
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