| ascending | the act of changing location in an upward direction |
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| ascending | moving or going or growing upward |
| ascending | the ascending part of the aorta as it emerges from the left ventricle |
| ascending | the branch of the ileocolic artery that supplies the ascending colon |
| ascending | the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the transverse colon |
| ascending | the point at which an orbit crosses the ecliptic plane going north |