The three-lobed cloverleaf-shaped aponeurosis situated at the center of the diaphragm; the central tendon is fused with the fibrous pericardium that provides attachment for the muscle fibers. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith MP:0012061 ]
Synonyms: centrum tendineum central tendon centrum tendineum diaphragmatis
Term information
- SCTID:244943002
- UMLS:C0230162 (ncithesaurus:Central_Tendon_of_the_Diaphragm)
- VHOG:0001399
- NCIT:C34119
- EMAPA:17702
- Wikipedia:Central_tendon_of_diaphragm
- FMA:58279
pheno_slim
In mammals, the diaphragm muscle divides the thoracoabdominal cavity into thorax and abdomen. In most mammals, the diaphragm is a flat sheet with muscle fibers radiating outward from a central tendon, and the diaphragm's apposition to the cranial surface of the liver gives it a dome-shape. Muscle fiber contraction reduces the curvature of the dome, thereby expanding the thoracic cavity and aspirating air into the lungs.[well established][VHOG]