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coronary sinus

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The short trunk that recieves most of the cardiac veins carrying the blood from the myocardium and delivers it to the right atrium, with the sinoatrial connection occurring between the inferior vena cava and the atrioventricular orifice. [ MP:0010436 http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ ]

Synonyms: sinus coronarius

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pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000010

The sinus, before entering the auricle, is considerably dilated - nearly to the size of the end of the little finger. Its wall is partly muscular, and at its junction with the great coronary vein is somewhat constricted and furnished with a valve consisting of two unequal segments

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Gray491.png

has related synonym

sinus coronarius

id

UBERON:0005438

prefLabel

Coronary sinus

present in taxon

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