Definition of "aortic" []

• Of or pertaining to the aorta. (adjective)

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• "In one paper, with the running page heading of "the cocaine paradox," we presented evidence that in aortic strips of rabbit and isolated electrically-driven atria from guinea pig and cat, cocaine potentiated responses to norepinephrine and inhibited those to tyramine by blocking one and the same site on adrenergic nerve terminals."
• "He knew that nitroglycerine activated an enzyme in aortic muscle cells, guanylylcyclase, which increased cyclic GMP and caused relaxation."
• "Nearly 10% of people older than 65 suffer from an ailment called aortic stenosis, narrowing of the valve that releases a big surge of blood into the heart's major artery, the aorta."