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
- NCIT:C12730
- UMLS:C0018827 (ncithesaurus:Cardiac_Ventricle)
- BTO:0000862
- galen:Ventricle
- GAID:568
- EFO:0000317
- EV:0100020
- EHDAA2:0004164
- ZFA:0000009
- MAT:0000497
- SCTID:277699000
- CALOHA:TS-0444
- TAO:0000009
- VHOG:0000435
- MESH:D006352
- MA:0000091
- EMAPA:17331
- EHDAA:1912
- XAO:0003193
- AAO:0010249
- FMA:7100
- Wikipedia:Ventricle_(heart)
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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
- immediate transformation of some future cardiac ventricle
- develops from some future cardiac ventricle
- contributes to morphology of some heart
- epicardium of ventricle
- endocardium of ventricle
- cardiac muscle tissue of ventricle
- atrioventricular ring
- compact layer of ventricle
- trabecular layer of ventricle
- His-Purkinje system
- heart ventricle wall
- trabecula carnea
- papillary muscle of heart
- apical region of heart ventricle
- outflow tract of ventricle
- ventricle cardiac jelly
- ventricular cardiac muscle cell
- cardiac ventricle fibroblast
- interventricular groove
- ventricular musculature
- myocardium of ventricle