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
The ductus venosus is a shunt that allows .
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital abnormal narrowing of the aorta that is normally located at the insertion of the ligamentum arteriosum, the remnant of the fetal shunt called the ductus arteriosus.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
It is interesting to note that in Polypterus, one of the Crossopterygian ganoids, there is a somewhat similar asymmetrical condition of inferior jugulars and ductus Cuvieri.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
