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Aorta And Its Branches

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This is a perennial trick question in Anatomy class. The first branches of the aorta (technically, the ascending aorta) are the right & left coronary arteries, which supply the heart. Many anatomy students spend so much effort learning ...
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I'd guess that the arching is to better induce/sustain an axial swirl to the flow via conservation of vorticity. There's a neat old film named "Vorticity" out of MIT that show an example of this. In the film, they show flow down a...
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