It will simulate the hidden injuries, ones that involve a torn aorta, a bruised kidney or a brain jostled inside a skull.

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In an abdominal aortic aneurism, the aorta swells like a balloon.

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Dr Mark Waller, the club's doctor, said the manager's chest pain had been caused by a dissection of the descending aorta.

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California's only heart museum, based in Palm Springs, is planning to add an extension shaped like an anatomically correct heart, complete with a lift rising through the aorta.

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He described three of the fatal stab wounds to Ronald Goldman: two gashes to the chest that cracked through a rib and punctured Goldman's right lung and a third that hit the aorta, the major artery leading from the heart.

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In Kent's aorta model most of the tears are transverse, or across the artery, in a section called the isthmus, and they start on the intima, or the inner layer of the aorta.

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Tests carried out at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and at the cardiothoracic unit at Broadgreen showed that the 54-year-old had a problem known as dissection of the aorta, which required 11 hours of emergency open-heart surgery.

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Edwards also bought a company called Embrella, which makes a filter that can be placed in the aorta in order to catch material.

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