How to Use pulmonary artery in a Sentence

pulmonary artery

noun

• The wound, which was one inch wide and three inches deep, hit her pulmonary artery.
  — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
• This, in turn, impacts other organs, such as the heart and the pulmonary artery.
  — Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2023
• Shot six times, including once in the pulmonary artery.
  — Mike Trautmann, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2020
• Once inside the rat, the worms make their way to the rat’s brain to partially mature, then on to the pulmonary arteries that lead from the heart to the lungs.
  — National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2018
• Seven of the rats had worms in their hearts, pulmonary arteries and brain tissues.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• Six of their shots struck Taylor, who was unarmed, hitting her pulmonary artery and killing her.
  — Matt Mencarini, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2020
• Taylor was struck six times, including in the pulmonary artery, and died on her apartment floor.
  — Tessa Duvall, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
• Taylor was struck six times, including in the pulmonary artery.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2020
• The shot hit Taylor's pulmonary artery, killing her within minutes.
  — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
• The blade of her knife had slipped between Marat’s first and second ribs, a space no wider that a twentieth of an inch, clipped the aorta, passed under the pulmonary artery and entered the left atrium of the heart.
  — Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2011
• The surgeons then clamped the aorta beyond the catheter and clamped the pulmonary artery and venae cavae, thus isolating the heart from the rest of the body, which thereafter received no circulation.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 11 Dec. 2017
• During Syah’s first surgery, doctors repaired her aorta and placed a band on the pulmonary artery to prevent too much blood from rushing to her lungs instead of her body.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
• The autopsy report shows a bullet struck near Taylor's heart, tearing through her main pulmonary artery connecting her heart and lungs, and the lower lobe of her left lung.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 26 Sep. 2020
• Four openings were designed to lead to the aorta, the vena cava, the pulmonary artery, and the pulmonary vein; a cable connected it to a black dictionary-size control box.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Last year, Smith was accepted to take part in a pulmonary artery denervation trial.
  — Fox News, 2 May 2018
• Taylor's autopsy report, which showed that the fatal bullet tore through her pulmonary artery and damaged one of her lungs, killing her quickly.
  — Tessa Duvall, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
• The valve between my heart's right ventricle and pulmonary artery had not developed correctly in the womb, and, as a result, blood flow between the two was obstructed.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• The catheter passes through the right side of the heart and follows the path of blood flow into the pulmonary artery in the lungs, enabling clinicians to take measurements as the patient exercises on a stationary bicycle.
  — Laura Landro, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• Urbanski attacked him, severing Collins’s pulmonary artery with a single thrust of the knife, prosecutors said.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• Her pulmonary artery pressures, a key indicator of PAH treatment success, are better on Winrevair than at any point since her diagnosis.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024