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left coronary artery
(redirected from Left coronary)

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left coronary artery,
one of a pair of branches from the ascending aorta, arising in the left posterior aortic sinus, dividing into the left interventricular artery and the circumflex branch, and supplying both ventricles and the left atrium. Compare right coronary artery.


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Doctors and surgeons can choose from normal-size or enlarged heart models, with or without coronary bypass definition, which show coronary and venal bypasses, including the ramus circumflexus of the left coronary artery, all displayed in accurate, intense color.
Case report A 33-year old man underwent one-vessel coronary artery bypass for critical left coronary artery stenosis.
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