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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) aortic arch
one member of a series of paired curved blood vessels that arise in the embryo from the ventral aorta, pass around the pharynx through the branchial arches, and join with the dorsal aorta to form the great vessels of the head and neck.

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1. (noun) aortic arch
the part of the aorta that arches and turns downward

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