chorda tendineae
The tendinous strands that connect the papillary muscles on the wall of the ventricles to the leaflets of the atrioventricular valves; the chordae tendineae serve to prevent the AV valves from prolapsing back into the atria. [ MP:0010608 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordae_tendineae ]
Term info
- FMA:12225
- UMLS:C0008484 (ncithesaurus:Chordae_Tendineae)
- Wikipedia:Chordae_tendineae
- GAID:564
- MESH:D002815
- NCIT:C32307
- SCTID:279330004
- EMAPA:36322
pheno_slim
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Gray493.png
chordae tendinea, chordae tendineae cordis
uberon
UBERON:0005994
Chorda tendinea
Term relations
- heart layer
- anatomical structure
- neural crest-derived structure
- part of some atrioventricular valve
- attached to some tricuspid valve leaflet
- contributes to morphology of some atrioventricular valve