coronary sinus
Sinus coronarius
In 4 atlases
Definition
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.
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Venous drainage
- right atrium
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 4158
- TA98
- A12.3.01.002
- FMA
- 4706
- UBERON
- 0005438
- Wikidata
- Q629460