Dorsal aorta
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| Profile view of a human embryo estimated at twenty or twenty-one days old. (Dorsal aorta labeled at center left.) | |
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| Latin | aorta dorsalis |
| Gray's | subject #135 506 |
| Carnegie stage | 9 |
Each primitive aorta receives anteriorly a vein—the vitelline vein—from the yolk-sac, and is prolonged backward on the lateral aspect of the notochord under the name of the dorsal aorta.
The dorsal aortæ give branches to the yolk-sac, and are continued backward through the body-stalk as the umbilical arteries to the villi of the chorion.
The two dorsal aortae combine to become the descending aorta in later development.
External links
- Embryology at Temple Heart98/heart97a/sld017
- Embryology at UNSW Notes/git
- cardev-009 — Embryology at UNC
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