papillary muscle of heart

Definition

One of the group of myocardial bundles which terminate in the chordae tendineae that attach to the cusps of the atrioventricular valves; each ventricle has an anterior and a posterior papillary muscle; the right ventricle sometimes has a septal papillary muscle.

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/).

Sub-structures

• posteromedial head of posterior papillary muscle of left ventricle

Neighbouring structures

• interventricular septum
• left atrial appendage
• left atrium
• left ventricle
• myocardium
• right atrium
• right ventricle
• valve
• cavity of left atrium
• cavity of left ventricle
• fibrous skeleton of heart
• left side of heart

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Identifiers

TA98

A12.1.00.022

FMA

12154

UBERON

0002494

Wikidata

Q1913658