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bulbus cordis

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A transient fetal dilation of the distal (or cranial) heart tube located where the arterial trunk joins the ventral roots of the aortic arches. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ MP:0010568 ]

Synonyms: primitive right ventricle endocardium

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Subsets

pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

UBPROP 0000001

A pear shaped chamber that functions as a capacitor, maintaining continuous blood flow into the gill arches. The bulbus arteriosus has three distinct layers. Hu et al. 2000.[TAO]

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Gray466.png

editor note

TODO - check relationship to bulbus arteriosus

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UBERON:0004706

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Bulbus cordis