The middle layer of the heart, comprised mainly of striated cardiac muscle fibers. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 MP:0005329 ]
Synonyms: muscle of heart heart myocardium
Term information
- Wikipedia:Myocardium
- MA:0000164
- galen:Myocardium
- ZFA:0001319
- TAO:0001319
- BTO:0000901
- XAO:0000065
- CALOHA:TS-0440
- NCIT:C12371
- MAT:0000453
- RETIRED_EHDAA2:0001220
- GAID:173
- SCTID:362012001
- EFO:0000819
- AAO:0010410
- EHDAA2:0004150
- FMA:9462
- EV:0100022
- VHOG:0000083
- MESH:D009206
- BSA:0000089
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
EDITOR_NOTE 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
Term relations
- heart layer
- layer of muscle tissue
- has part some conducting system of heart
- part of some musculature of body
- composed primarily of some cardiac muscle tissue