A cell located in the heart, including both muscle and non muscle cells. [ GOC:tfm ]
Synonyms: heart cell
Term information
- FMA:84791
- FMA:83808
- BTO:0001539
- CALOHA:TS-0115
From Onard of the FMA: Cardiac muscle cell or cardiac myocyte is a striated muscle cell. Cardiocyte on the other hand is any cell in the heart which includes cells other than muscle cells (e.g. endothelial cell of endocardium). Unless there is a consensus among anatomists that cardiocytes refer only to muscle cells, we will treat them as a general class of cells in the heart.