Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pulmonary_trunk

1 sense of pulmonary trunk

Sense 1
pulmonary trunk, truncus pulmonalis -- (the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries)
       => pulmonary artery, arteria pulmonalis -- (one of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs)