Pulmonary Artery Definition

Pulmonary Artery Sentence Examples

• Normally, the pulmonary artery carries blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.

• The ventricle on the left side pumps blood full of oxygen through the body; the ventricle on the right side pumps the same blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs to take up oxygen.

• Six or seven species of mosquitoes are also the intermediate hosts of Filaria immitis, which infests the right auricle and pulmonary artery of the dog, and occurs throughout the tropics, in southern Europe, the United States of America, and elsewhere.

• None were visible on main pulmonary artery angiography due to reversal of flow in the affected pulmonary artery branches.

• The following figure shows the pressure in the main pulmonary artery in the dog during a period of hypoxia.