But do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life—music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that are going on in the great arteries of the world?
Most neural responses like this use baroreceptors, special nerve endings found in the carotid arteries, the aorta, and other larger arteries in the neck.
And two, the ventricles need to squeeze like their squeezing a tube of toothpaste -- from the bottom up -- to accelerate the blood through the big arteries at the top of the heart.
Less commonly, babies can have levo-transposition of the great arteries, or l-TGA, with levo meaning that the aorta's primarily to the " left" of the pulmonary artery.