subcostal artery

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An artery with its origin in the thoracic aorta, with distribution from the inferior to the twelfth rib.

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The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.
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A fragment penetrated her shoulder, missing a major artery by an inch.
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The horn, or broken rib, had hit an artery, and within a few minutes, or seconds, he was dead.
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Dr. Ornish became famous in the 1990s for showing reversal of coronary artery disease using a very low-fat, near-vegetarian diet.
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A bullet had struck a femoral artery and it was gushing blood as she kept firing.
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On the other hand, his feet are so cold from the artery being severed that they anticipate mortification.
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They scoured every main artery and side road and cart track for miles in every direction, he and Johnny the Itch.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The vital artery was missed, as he had anticipated, and the result was as he had foreseen.
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On catching him I found that he had somehow severed an artery in his tail, and I had to improvise a tourniquet to stop the flow.
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It would be the bursting of the ligature of the artery; and once under the water with its heavy burden, no power could raise it.
Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo