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

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

However, a shunt within the pulmonary artery, the ductus arteriosus, diverts a portion of this blood into the aorta.

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

So saith Gloss: Dulcior est fructus post multa pericula ductus.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony