Medical Term:
para-aortic bodies
Definition: small masses of chromaffin tissue found near the sympathetic ganglia along the aorta; they are more prominent during fetal life. The chromaffin cells secrete noradrenalin; chemoreceptive endings monitor levels of blood gases.
Synonym(s): corpora paraaorticaTA, aortic glomera, glomera aortica, aortic bodies, corpus aorticum, glomus aorticum, organs of Zuckerkandl, Zuckerkandl bodies
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