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bulbus cordis

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a transient fetal dilation of the distal (or cranial) heart tube located where the arterial trunk joins the ventral roots of the aortic arches [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]

Term info

Label

bulbus cordis

Synonyms
  • primitive right ventricle endocardium
database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Gray466.png

editor note

TODO - check relationship to bulbus arteriosus

external definition

A pear shaped chamber that functions as a capacitor, maintaining continuous blood flow into the gill arches. The bulbus arteriosus has three distinct layers. Hu et al. 2000.[TAO]

id

UBERON:0004706