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cardiac ventricle
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Cardiac chamber through which blood leaves the heart. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricle_(heart) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Term info
Label
cardiac ventricle
Synonyms
- heart ventricle
- lower chamber of heart
- ventricle of heart
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
external definition
One of four heart chambers.[TAO], A chamber of the heart that receives blood from one or more atria and pumps it by muscular contraction into the arteries.[AAO]
has broad synonym
ventricle
has obo namespace
uberon
homology notes
In the primitive vertebrate heart the four chambers are: 1. Sinus venosus (...) 2. Atrium (...) 3. Ventricle (...) 4. Conus arteriosus (...)[well established][VHOG]
id
UBERON:0002082
Term relations
Subclass of:
- cardiac chamber
- immediate transformation of some future cardiac ventricle
- develops from some future cardiac ventricle
- contributes to morphology of some heart
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