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cardiac septum
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The thin membranous structure between the two heart atria or the thick muscular structure between the two heart ventricles. [ ]
Term info
Label
cardiac septum
Synonyms
- cardiac septa
- heart septa
- heart septum
- septum of heart
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
external ontology notes
in GO, septum morphogenesis is part of cardiac chamber morphogenesis; need to add axioms to infer this
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
spiral septa
id
UBERON:0002099
taxon notes
'Terrestrial vertebrates have divided hearts in which septae separate the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood within the pulmonary and systemic circulations'
Term relations
Subclass of:
- septum
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some heart
- adjacent_to some cardiac chamber
- contributes to morphology of some heart
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