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left cardiac atrium

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002079


A cardiac atrium that is in the left side of the heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins, In mammals this is pumped into the left ventricle, via the Mitral valve. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_atrium ]

Synonyms: heart left atrium, left atrium of heart, left cardiac atrium, atrium sinistrum, left atrium, cardiac left atrium

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000001

Left cardiac chamber which is continuous with the pulmonary venous trunk.[FMA], The chamber of the heart that receives blood from the lungs[XAO:EJS].

UBPROP 0000003

The tetrapod clade develops a complete atrial septum and loses the fifth aortic arch altogether.[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000006

https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/wiki/Modeling-paired-structures-Design-Pattern

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Diagram_of_the_human_heart_%28cropped%29.svg

id

UBERON:0002079

prefLabel

Left atrium

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606