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 venosus is a shunt that allows .

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

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Congregans autem inde in gremio meo pro mirabili ostendendo, sed ductus conscientia, in terram proieci, nihil mecum reseruans, et sic per gratiam Dei liber exiui.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard