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CORONARY VESSELS

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in anatomy, certain vessels which furnish the substance of the heart with blood.

CORONARY Arteries, are two arteries springing out of the aorta, before it leaves the pericardium. See ANATOMY, n° 122, and 123.

CORONARY Vein, a vein diffused over the exterior surface of the heart. See ANATOMY, n° 122.

Stomachic CORONARY, a vein inserted into the trunk of the splenic vein, which, by uniting with the mesenteric, forms the vena porta. See ANATOMY, n° 123.

CORONARIÆ, in botany, the 10th order of plants in Linnæus's Fragments of a natural method. Under this name, instead of the more obvious one li-baccæ, Linnæus collects a great number of genera, most of which furnish very beautiful garden-flowers, viz., albuca, cyanella, fritillaria, helonias, hyacinthus, hypsis, lilium, melanthium, ornithogalum, scilla, tulipa, agave, aletris, aloe, anthericum, alphodelus, bromelia, burmannia, hemerocallis, polianthes, tillandria, veratum, yucca.