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cardiac septum

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The thin membranous structure between the two heart atria or the thick muscular structure between the two heart ventricles. [ MESH:A07.541.459 ]

Synonyms: septum of heart cardiac septa heart septa heart septum

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Term information

database cross reference
  • NCIT:C49485
  • EMAPA:35400
  • MESH:D006346
  • UMLS:C0018819 (ncithesaurus:Heart_Septum)
  • GAID:562
  • SCTID:362014000
  • MA:0000083
  • FMA:7180
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

plural term
cardiac septa

plural term
heart septa

plural term
spiral septa [ XAO:0004141 ]

external ontology notes

in GO, septum morphogenesis is part of cardiac chamber morphogenesis; need to add axioms to infer this

has related synonym

spiral septa

id

UBERON:0002099

taxon notes

'Terrestrial vertebrates have divided hearts in which septae separate the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood within the pulmonary and systemic circulations'