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chorda tendineae

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The tendinous strands that connect the papillary muscles on the wall of the ventricles to the leaflets of the atrioventricular valves; the chordae tendineae serve to prevent the AV valves from prolapsing back into the atria [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordae_tendineae ]

Term info

Label

chorda tendineae

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

plural term
chordae tendinea [ FMA : 12225 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Gray493.png

has related synonym

chordae tendinea, chordae tendineae cordis

id

UBERON:0005994