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 MP:0010608 ]

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pheno_slim

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chordae tendinea

chordae tendineae cordis

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UBERON:0005994