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
  • Taylor was struck six times, including in the pulmonary artery.
    — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The catheter is guided through the vein to the right side of your heart and into your pulmonary artery, which leads to your lungs.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Seven of the rats had worms in their hearts, pulmonary arteries and brain tissues.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Taylor was struck six times, including in the pulmonary artery, and died on her apartment floor.
    — Tessa Duvall, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Police said the bullet traveled to Boyd's lung and lodged in his pulmonary artery.
    — Jeff Capellini, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Six of their shots struck Taylor, who was unarmed, hitting her pulmonary artery and killing her.
    — Matt Mencarini, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The pulmonary valve is between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery (the lung's main artery).
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The shot hit Taylor's pulmonary artery, killing her within minutes.
    — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Also, when enough pulmonary artery blood flow is blocked by a clot or clots, the pressure in the pulmonary artery can build up more and more.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The Illinois mom had her entire right lung removed, as well as and parts of the main pulmonary artery and lymph nodes.
    — Staff Author, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The pulmonary valve, which manages blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery, which travels to your lungs.
    — Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The procedure allows oxygen-poor blood in a child's body to go right to their pulmonary artery instead of through their heart chambers.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Last year, Smith was accepted to take part in a pulmonary artery denervation trial.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • In blocking a pulmonary artery, a pulmonary embolus prevents blood flow to the portion of the lung supplied by that artery, which is clearly not good.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • People who have sleep apnea and other sleep disorders have higher blood pressure and higher pressure in the pulmonary artery.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Doctors found tumors in both pulmonary arteries and her aorta, as well as complications from her earlier lung surgery.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The pulmonary valve connects the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery (the lung's main artery), and the aortic valve connects the left ventricle and the aorta.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • 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 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Urbanski attacked him, severing Collins’s pulmonary artery with a single thrust of the knife, prosecutors said.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
  • During the procedure, a catheter, or tiny flexible tube, is inserted into a blood vessel and snaked into the heart to view the coronary and/or pulmonary arteries up close.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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 ventricles of the heart are removed, and the TAH is implanted and attached to the upper chambers, aorta, and pulmonary artery.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024

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