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myocardium

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002349

The middle layer of the heart, comprised mainly of striated cardiac muscle fibers. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ MP:0005329 ]

Synonyms: muscle of heart, heart myocardium

Term info

database cross reference
  • XAO:0000065
  • MESH:D009206
  • VHOG:0000083
  • EFO:0000819
  • TAO:0001319
  • EMAPA:32688
  • MAT:0000453
  • Wikipedia:Myocardium
  • UMLS:C0027061 (ncithesaurus:Myocardium)
  • MA:0000164
  • ZFA:0001319
  • BSA:0000089
  • SCTID:362012001
  • AAO:0010410
  • NCIT:C12371
  • FMA:9462
  • EHDAA2:0004150
  • CALOHA:TS-0440
  • RETIRED_EHDAA2:0001220
  • GAID:173
  • BTO:0000901
  • EV:0100022
  • galen:Myocardium
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

UBPROP 0000001

The middle layer of the heart, consisting of cardiac muscle.[AAO], Robust muscular tunic of the heart which forms the basic part of its walls. Its external surface is covered by the pericardium and its internal one by the endocardium. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000007

myocardial

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Glanzstreifen.jpg

editor note

TODO - check 'Myocardum proper' in FMA. We superclass the more generic class for now. FMA has is_a muscle layer - should we add this? ZFA and BTO both have is_a 'cardiac muscle' (tissue?). But in U we also follow FMA and have cardiac muscle tissue of myocardium (there is also Fibrocollagenous connective tissue of myocardium), which would be identical (see issue-10). Note that GO also treats left/right ventricular cardiac muscle tissue synonymous with ventricular myocardium

has related synonym

heart muscle, cardiac muscle

id

UBERON:0002349

prefLabel

Myocardium