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- Latin · borrowed fromtruncus arteriosus
- English todaytruncus arteriosus
Borrowed from Latin truncus arteriosus (literally “arterial trunk”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
truncus arteriosus
Today it means: The single arterial outlet in the embryological heart which later divides into the aorta and the pulmonary trunk. Full definition →
Latin truncus arteriosus