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pharyngeal arch artery

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One of a series of paired embryological vascular structures formed within a pharyngeal arch; in the adult, some of these vessels give rise to the great vessels[MP] [ ]

Term info

Label

pharyngeal arch artery

Synonyms
  • PAA
  • aortic arch
  • aortic arches
  • branchial aortic arches
  • branchial arch artery
  • embryonic aortic arch artery
  • pharyngeal arch artery
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

plural term
branchial aortic arches [ http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-080512-6 ]

abbreviation
PAA [ MP : 0002672 ]

plural term
pharyngeal arch arteries

latin term
arteriae arcuum pharyngeorum [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aortic_arches ]

plural term
aortic arches [ ZFA : 0005004 ]

plural term
branchial aortic arches [ ZFA : 0005004 http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-080512-6 ]

curator note

Do not confuse with arch of aorta.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gray473.png

development notes

The third, fourth, and sixth arches, along with the seventh intersegmental arteries and the left dorsal aorta, are the primary contributors to the normal aortic arch and its major thoracic branches

editor note

add specific artery derivatives

external definition

Paired vessels arching from the ventral to the dorsal aorta through the pharyngeal arches. [TFD][VHOG]

has alternative id

UBERON:0004342

has related synonym

a. arcuum pharyngeorum, branchial aortic arches, aortic arch artery, pharyngeal arch arteries, arteriae arcuum pharyngeorum, pharyngeal arch artery

homology notes

When vertebrates first appeared, they must have possessed a ventral and dorsal aorta with aortic arches between them.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0004363

taxon notes

Number varies - Lampreys have 8, hagfishes 15; only up to 6 appear in embryonic development in most gnathostome fishes and all tetrapods