Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as aortic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective of or pertaining to the aorta.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to the aorta.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the aorta

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Examples

  • My aortal anneurism was NOT “my own fault”, despite the fact that every picture of me on the internet shows me as overweight and smoking a cigarette.

    Matthew Yglesias » Homework 2010

  • Unfortunately. this inspirational, kind man recently passed away at the age of 69 from an aortal aneurysm.

    TOC: Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer 2007

  • Two longtime friends, Michael Parver and Don Smith, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Diehl died of an aortal aneurysm.

    Archive 2006-11-26 Bill Crider 2006

  • Two longtime friends, Michael Parver and Don Smith, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Diehl died of an aortal aneurysm.

    William Diehl, R. I. P. Bill Crider 2006

  • I did not strike deeply enough to injure him, to rupture or tear open his body, slashing the stomach or crushing the aortal (pg. 58) tube, only enough to stop him, definitely.

    Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

  • The aortal trunk, G, of the arterial system is disposed along the median line, as well for its own safety as for the fitting distribution of those branches which spring symmetrically from either side of it to supply the lateral regions of the body.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • If the heart be injected from the abdominal aorta, the aortal arch will flatten against the sternum.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • There are, indeed, several great aortal lines, which connect the coal-fields with each other or with the metropolis, the head of the body; or the metropolis with the Continent; but, in every other direction, it will be observed that the railway system becomes sluggish in proportion to its distance from a coal-field, the traffic subdividing and dwindling away like the arterial streams of the animal body.

    The Coal Question~ Of British Invention William Stanley Jevons 1865

  • 'Why, you had just been saying something, and Dr Nicholls said: "If he had got aneurism of the aortal his days are numbered."'

    Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • On the other hand, the grave risks that were hidden in those leaked documents, as well as in all the other government distortions, cover-ups, and lies of the past decade, have been graphically illustrated in aortal red.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Chase Madar 2012

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