ductus

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Two-year-old Gulbadan was born with a heart defect, a condition called patent ductus arteriosus.

From BBC • May 2, 2023

The ductus arteriosus constricts as a result of increased oxygen concentration, and becomes the ligamentum arteriosum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Emerging from the placenta is the umbilical vein, which carries oxygen-rich blood from the mother to the fetal inferior vena cava via the ductus venosus to the heart that pumps it into fetal circulation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

A patent ductus arteriosus is a congenital condition in which the ductus arteriosus fails to close.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

To fill the new-made vacuum, the whole of the blood from the right ventricle rushes through the pulmonary tube, leaving none to go through the ductus arteriosus, thus made useless, and henceforth to be abolished.

From Theory of Circulation by Respiration Synopsis of its Principles and History by Willard, Emma