Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun truncus_pulmonalis
1 sense of truncus pulmonalis
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)