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cardiac atrium
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Cardiac chamber in which blood enters the heart. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_atrium ]
Term info
Label
cardiac atrium
Synonyms
- atria
- atrium
- atrium of heart
- cardiac atria
- heart atrium
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
external definition
One of four heart chambers.[TAO], One of two chambers of the heart which receive blood from the veins and forces it by muscular contration to the ventricle.[AAO]
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uberon
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atrial tissue
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:0002081
Term relations
Subclass of:
- cardiac chamber
- develops_from some future cardiac atrium
- immediate transformation of some future cardiac atrium
- contributes to morphology of some heart
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