thoracic aorta
The part of the aorta that extends from the origin at the heart to the diaphragm, and from which arises numerous branches that supply oxygenated blood to the chest cage and the organs within the chest. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the thoracic aorta is
The part of the aorta that extends from the origin at the heart to the diaphragm, and from which arises numerous branches that supply oxygenated blood to the chest cage and the organs within the chest. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the thoracic aorta is
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the thoracic aorta connects to
The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of thoracic segment of trunk.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the thoracic aorta. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as aorta thoracica, thoracic part of aorta, aorta thoracalis and pars thoracica aortae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001515, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: thoracic segment of trunk.
- A kind of: section of aorta.
- contains: anterior intercostal artery, arch of aorta, ascending aorta, descending thoracic aorta, dorsal intercostal artery and superior phrenic artery.
- contributes to morphology of: aorta, arch of aorta, ascending aorta and descending thoracic aorta.
- subtype: arch of aorta and ascending aorta.
- branching part of: superior phrenic artery.
Questions
Where is the thoracic aorta?
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the thoracic aorta connect to?
Part of: thoracic segment of trunk.
Is the thoracic aorta the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.