Lucky_P - Question

[inyati13]

Lucky, a question. Direct and short. What is the nomenclature used in Veterinarian Sciences for the large artery that exits the heart (as a branch of the aortic arch) and provides systemic blood circulation to the posterior end of a Bovine? In Romerian Comparative Anatomy, the term that is used is the "dorsal aorta". This major large artery carrying oxygenated blood gives rise to numerous other large systemic arteries.

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[Lucky_P]

Email me off list for my mailing address so that you'll know where to send that check! It'll come in quite handy about right now.

I just call it 'aorta'.
But, if we're getting into minute detail, the proximal segment is generally termed 'ascending aorta', which then curves to form the 'aortic arch', and continues caudally as the 'descending aorta'.

 

[inyati13]

Email me off list for my mailing address so that you'll know where to send that check! It'll come in quite handy about right now.

I just call it 'aorta'.
But, if we're getting into minute detail, the proximal segment is generally termed 'ascending aorta', which then curves to form the 'aortic arch', and continues caudally as the 'descending aorta'.

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[wbvs58]

I thought that must have been a trick question Ron.
Ken

 

[inyati13]

I thought that must have been a trick question Ron.
Ken

No, Ken. I have seen ascending/descending aorta used for those portions of the dorsal aorta. But I was wondering if there was something in the veterinarian sciences that was unknown to me for describing that anatomical structure.

 

[Lucky_P]

Don't know that the anatomists are all that keen on 'renaming' things, but the taxonomists are continually upsetting the apple cart, changing the names of things. Several of the bacterial pathogens I deal with on a regular basis have had their names changed at least 3 or 4 times over the course of my career. It's getting harder all the time to keep 'em straight.

Here's a funny(well, it's funny to me) Hitler rant on Taxonomists that one of my plant enthusiast buddies posted a link to recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqJkG2XhQ8

 

[inyati13]

Don't know that the anatomists are all that keen on 'renaming' things, but the taxonomists are continually upsetting the apple cart, changing the names of things. Several of the bacterial pathogens I deal with on a regular basis have had their names changed at least 3 or 4 times over the course of my career. It's getting harder all the time to keep 'em straight.

Here's a funny(well, it's funny to me) Hitler rant on Taxonomists that one of my plant enthusiast buddies posted a link to recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqJkG2XhQ8

That is hilarious. On the serious side, DNA and molecular biology are responsibile for finding a number branches of the phylogenetic tree to be in the wrong place. All the way down the tree to the phylum in some cases.

My education is becoming dated. I once knew the genus and species of every reptile and amphibian in the State of KY. Some of those genera are no longer correct.