ascend : Idioms & Phrases

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ascending aorta

  • noun the ascending part of the aorta as it emerges from the left ventricle
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ascending artery

  • noun the branch of the ileocolic artery that supplies the ascending colon
    arteria ascendens.
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ascending colon

  • noun the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the transverse colon
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ascending node

  • noun the point at which an orbit crosses the ecliptic plane going north
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Reduction ascending

  • (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars.
Webster 1913