Aorta

• The aorta consists of five main anatomic segments: ¹
  • the aortic root,
  • the tubular portion of the ascending aorta,
  • the aortic arch,
  • the descending thoracic aorta, and
  • the abdominal aorta

Footnotes

1. https://www.asecho.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015_Thoracic-Aorta.pdf ↩