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Dorsal aorta

Dorsal aorta

Profile view of a human embryo estimated at twenty or twenty-one days old. (Dorsal aorta labeled at center left.)

Latin	aorta dorsalis
Gray's	subject #135 506
Carnegie stage	9

Each primitive aorta receives anteriorly a vein—the vitelline vein—from the yolk-sac, and is prolonged backward on the lateral aspect of the notochord under the name of the dorsal aorta.

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The dorsal aortæ give branches to the yolk-sac, and are continued backward through the body-stalk as the umbilical arteries to the villi of the chorion.

The two dorsal aortae combine to become the descending aorta in later development.

v • d • e Prenatal development/Mammalian development of circulatory system
Vascular	Blood island arteries: Dorsal aorta - Aortic arches - Vitelline arteries - Ductus arteriosus - Umbilical artery veins: Cardinal veins - Ducts of Cuvier - Vitelline veins - Ductus venosus - Umbilical vein
Heart development	Primitive heart tube: Truncus arteriosus - Bulbus cordis - Primitive ventricle - Primitive atrium - Sinus venosus Septum primum (Ostium primum, Ostium secundum) - Septum secundum (Foramen ovale) - other septa (Endocardial cushions/Septum intermedium, Aorticopulmonary septum) - Atrial canal