myocardium
the middle layer of the heart, comprised mainly of striated cardiac muscle fibers [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Term info
myocardium
- heart myocardium
- muscle of heart
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
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TODO - check 'Myocardum proper' in FMA. We superclass the more generic class for now. FMA has is_a muscle layer - should we add this? ZFA and BTO both have is_a 'cardiac muscle' (tissue?). But in U we also follow FMA and have cardiac muscle tissue of myocardium (there is also Fibrocollagenous connective tissue of myocardium), which would be identical (see issue-10). Note that GO also treats left/right ventricular cardiac muscle tissue synonymous with ventricular myocardium
The middle layer of the heart, consisting of cardiac muscle.[AAO], Robust muscular tunic of the heart which forms the basic part of its walls. Its external surface is covered by the pericardium and its internal one by the endocardium. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]
uberon
heart muscle, cardiac muscle
myocardial
UBERON:0002349
Term relations
- heart layer
- layer of muscle tissue
- structure with developmental contribution from neural crest
- has part some conducting system of heart
- part of some musculature of body
- composed primarily of some cardiac muscle tissue