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pericardium

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The combination of pericardial sac (a double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the great vessels) plus fibrous pericardium. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericardium ]

Term info

Label

pericardium

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

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external definition

Peritoneum that surrounds the heart.[AAO]

external ontology notes

this class denotes a combination of fibrous PC + PC sac (itself a combination of cavity, epithelium and connective tissue). Many sources use the term 'pericardium' to denote either just the serous membrane (ZFA) or the epithelium (GO), In GO the concept of pericardium is developmental implicitly epithelial, but here it represents a multi-tissue structure encompassing the sac (epithelium plus connective) and cavity, we follow FMA in dividing pericardium into pericardial sac and fibrous pericardium

id

UBERON:0002407