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Cardiovascular System > Heart > Heart Valves > Papillary Muscles
Cardiovascular System > Heart > Myocardium > Papillary Muscles
Tissues > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Myocardium > Papillary Muscles

Preferred term

Papillary Muscles  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • Manual 21.52 as test tissue; for diseases of papillary muscles coordinate IM with MYOCARDIAL DISEASES; / growth: coordinate with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; / embryol: coordinate with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT if pertinent

Scope note

  • Conical muscular projections from the walls of the cardiac ventricles, attached to the cusps of the atrioventricular valves by the chordae tendineae.

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • mm. papillares
  • musculi papillares
  • nystylihas
  • papillaarilihakset
  • papillaarilihas
  • Swedish

  • Musculi papillares

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010210

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