This piece comes from the stern archives and was first published in March 2024.

Professor Czerny, the aorta has recently been considered a separate organ, and you have played a major role in this. So much effort for a thick blood vessel? The aorta can do much more than other blood vessels. This can be seen from the fact that each section is constructed differently. And each segment also gets sick in a different way.

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