The combination of pericardial sac (a double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the great vessels) plus fibrous pericardium. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericardium ]
Term information
- EV:0100023
- RETIRED_EHDAA2:0001443
- NCIT:C13005
- BSA:0000090
- Wikipedia:Pericardium
- TAO:0000054
- UMLS:C0031050 (ncithesaurus:Pericardium)
- AAO:0010817
- EHDAA:5376
- EFO:0000820
- MA:0000099
- EMAPA:16133
- MESH:D010496
- galen:Pericardium
- SCTID:181295003
- ZFA:0000054
- GAID:569
- CALOHA:TS-0761
- FMA:9869
- VHOG:0001280
- BTO:0000717
- XAO:0004182
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvoCLgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- MAT:0000454
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
this class denotes a combination of fibrous PC + PC sac (itself a combination of cavity, epithelium and connective tissue). Many sources use the term 'pericardium' to denote either just the serous membrane (ZFA) or the epithelium (GO)
In GO the concept of pericardium is developmental implicitly epithelial, but here it represents a multi-tissue structure encompassing the sac (epithelium plus connective) and cavity
we follow FMA in dividing pericardium into pericardial sac and fibrous pericardium
Term relations
- multi-tissue structure
- cellular anatomical structure
- has part some pericardial sac
- surrounds some myocardium
- has part some fibrous pericardium
- part of some heart plus pericardium