#aortic_body

Aortic body

Cell cluster in the aorta which monitors blood content

The aortic bodies are one of several small clusters of peripheral chemoreceptors located along the aortic arch. They are important in measuring partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood, and blood pH.

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