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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- FMA:12225
- NCIT:C32307
- GAID:564
- MESH:D002815
- SCTID:279330004
- Wikipedia:Chordae_tendineae
- EMAPA:36322
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pheno_slim
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Subclass of:
- heart layer
- neural crest-derived structure
- part of some atrioventricular valve
- attached to some tricuspid valve leaflet
- contributes to morphology of some atrioventricular valve
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