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When your heart's left ventricle (one of the four chambers of the heart) pumps blood into the aorta (the largest artery in the body), the first muscle to receive the oxygen-rich blood is your heart itself. It receives this blood through the coronary arteries on the surface of the heart.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The aorta is the main artery that carries oxygenated blood out of the heart to the body. It starts at the left ventricle of the heart as one large vessel and branches out into the smaller blood vessels of the body.