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 increased oxygen concentration also constricts the ductus arteriosus, ensuring that these shunts no longer prevent blood from reaching the lungs to be oxygenated.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Eventually, the muscular and endothelial components of the ductus arteriosus degenerate, leaving only the connective tissue component of the ligamentum arteriosum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Failure of the ductus arteriosus to close results in blood flowing from the higher pressure aorta into the lower pressure pulmonary trunk.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Cum ducis numerum per se, qui provenit inde Sit tibi quadratus, ductus radix erit hujus, Nec numeros omnes quadratos dicere debes, 212 Est autem omnis numerus radix alicujus.

From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert