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  2. List of arteries of the human body - Wikipedia

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    The brachial artery. The radial artery. The ulnar artery. The arteries of the trunk. The descending aorta. The thoracic aorta. The abdominal aorta. The common iliac arteries. The hypogastric artery.

  3. Blood vessel - Wikipedia

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    Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body. [1] These vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to the tissues of the body. They also take waste and carbon dioxide away from the tissues. Blood vessels are needed to sustain life, because all of the body's tissues rely on ...

  4. Visible Human Project - Wikipedia

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    The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which these findings link anatomy to its audiences. [1] A male and a female cadaver were cut into thin ...

  5. Circulatory system - Wikipedia

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    The human arterial system originates from the aortic arches and from the dorsal aortae starting from week 4 of embryonic life. The first and second aortic arches regress and form only the maxillary arteries and stapedial arteries respectively. The arterial system itself arises from aortic arches 3, 4 and 6 (aortic arch 5 completely regresses).

  6. Uterine artery - Wikipedia

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    Uterine artery. Arteries of the female reproductive tract: uterine artery, ovarian artery and vaginal arteries. (Uterine artery labeled at center.) Vessels of the uterus and its appendages, rear view. (Uterine artery labeled at center right.) The uterine artery is an artery that supplies blood to the uterus in females.

  7. Artery - Wikipedia

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    The anatomy of arteries can be separated into gross anatomy, at the macroscopic level, and microanatomy, which must be studied with a microscope.The arterial system of the human body is divided into systemic arteries, carrying blood from the heart to the whole body, and pulmonary arteries, carrying deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.

  8. Femoral artery - Wikipedia

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    The deep femoral artery is a large and important branch that arises from the lateral side of the femoral artery about 1.5 in. (4 cm) below the inguinal ligament. It passes medially behind the femoral vessels and enters the medial fascial compartment of the thigh. It ends by becoming the fourth perforating artery.

  9. Aorta - Wikipedia

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    The aorta (/ eɪ ˈ ɔːr t ə / ay-OR-tə; pl.: aortas or aortae) is the main and largest artery in the human body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart, branching upwards immediately after, and extending down to the abdomen, where it splits at the aortic bifurcation into two smaller arteries (the common iliac arteries).