Cardiac chamber in which blood enters the heart. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_atrium http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Synonyms: cardiac atria atrium of heart atria atrium heart atrium
Term information
- EV:0100019
- FMA:7099
- ZFA:0000471
- MAT:0000496
- Wikipedia:Heart_atrium
- EMAPA:16688
- EHDAA:1265
- SCTID:261405004
- NCIT:C12728
- UMLS:C0018792 (ncithesaurus:Cardiac_Atrium)
- AAO:0010246
- EFO:0000277
- EHDAA2:0000154
- MESH:D006325
- CALOHA:TS-0437
- GAID:555
- VHOG:0000175
- BTO:0000903
- TAO:0000471
- galen:Atrium
- MA:0000073
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One of four heart chambers.[TAO]
One of two chambers of the heart which receive blood from the veins and forces it by muscular contration to the ventricle.[AAO]
In the primitive vertebrate heart the four chambers are: 1. Sinus venosus (...) 2. Atrium (...) 3. Ventricle (...) 4. Conus arteriosus (...).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- cardiac chamber
- mesoderm-derived structure
- immediate transformation of some future cardiac atrium
- contributes to morphology of some heart