Cardiac chamber through which blood leaves the heart. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricle_(heart) ]
Synonyms: ventricle of heart heart ventricle lower chamber of heart
Term information
- AAO:0010249
- EFO:0000317
- TAO:0000009
- UMLS:C0018827 (ncithesaurus:Cardiac_Ventricle)
- NCIT:C12730
- MA:0000091
- MESH:D006352
- EHDAA2:0004164
- EHDAA:1912
- EV:0100020
- FMA:7100
- MAT:0000497
- BTO:0000862
- EMAPA:17331
- Wikipedia:Ventricle_(heart)
- VHOG:0000435
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvVjj1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- SCTID:277699000
- CALOHA:TS-0444
- XAO:0003193
- ZFA:0000009
- galen:Ventricle
- GAID:568
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One of four heart chambers.[TAO]
A chamber of the heart that receives blood from one or more atria and pumps it by muscular contraction into the arteries.[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 ventricle
- contributes to morphology of some heart