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. [ MP:0010608 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordae_tendineae ]

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Term information

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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