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cardiac septum

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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 info

database cross reference
  • EMAPA:35400
  • MESH:D006346
  • UMLS:C0018819 (ncithesaurus:Heart_Septum)
  • SCTID:362014000
  • FMA:7180
  • MA:0000083
  • NCIT:C49485
  • GAID:562
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

plural term
heart septa

plural term
cardiac septa

plural term
spiral septa [ XAO:0004141 ]

UBPROP 0000008

'Terrestrial vertebrates have divided hearts in which septae separate the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood within the pulmonary and systemic circulations'

UBPROP 0000012

in GO, septum morphogenesis is part of cardiac chamber morphogenesis; need to add axioms to infer this

has related synonym

spiral septa

id

UBERON:0002099

prefLabel

Cardiac septum