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Cardiovascular System > Heart > Heart Ventricles

Preferred term

Heart Ventricles  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cardiac Ventricle
  • Cardiac Ventricles
  • Heart Ventricle
  • Ventricle, Cardiac
  • Ventricle, Heart
  • Ventricles, Cardiac
  • Ventricles, Heart

Note

  • ventricular hypertrophy = HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR or HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; false ventricular tendons: index PURKINJE FIBERS but see note there; PAPILLARY MUSCLES & CHORDAE TENDINEAE are also available

Scope note

  • The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous BLOOD into the LUNGS and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.

History note

  • 2004(1966)

In other languages

  • sydänkammiot

    Finnish

  • kammio
  • kammiot
  • sydämen kammio
  • sydämen kammiot
  • sydänkammio
  • ventriculus cordis
  • Hjärtkammare

    Swedish

  • Hjärtventriklar
  • Höger ventrikel
  • Vänster ventrikel

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006352

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