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
Term information
- UMLS:C0018819 (ncithesaurus:Heart_Septum)
- EMAPA:35400
- MESH:D006346
- MA:0000083
- SCTID:362014000
- FMA:7180
- GAID:562
- NCIT:C49485
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
'Terrestrial vertebrates have divided hearts in which septae separate the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood within the pulmonary and systemic circulations'
in GO, septum morphogenesis is part of cardiac chamber morphogenesis; need to add axioms to infer this
Term relations
- septum
- part of some heart
- adjacent to some cardiac chamber
- contributes to morphology of some heart