National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Papillary Muscle
Synonyms

MUSCLE, PAPILLARY

PAPILLARY MUSCLE

Papillary Muscle

Definitions

Any one of the group of small muscles located in the ventricles of the heart that insert onto the ventricular wall and are continuous at the opposite end with the chordae tendineae, which insert onto the free edge of the atrioventricular valves, functioning to keep the valves closed during ventricular systole.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C33259

ALT_DEFINITION

Any one of the group of small muscles in the heart ventricles, in general extending from the ventricular wall to the free edge of the atrioventricular valves; primary function is to keep the valves closed during ventricular systole.

code

C33259

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C77529

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C77526

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C74456

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

Any one of the group of small muscles located in the ventricles of the heart that insert onto the ventricular wall and are continuous at the opposite end with the chordae tendineae, which insert onto the free edge of the atrioventricular valves, functioning to keep the valves closed during ventricular systole.

FULL_SYN

MUSCLE, PAPILLARY

PAPILLARY MUSCLE

Papillary Muscle

label

Papillary Muscle

Legacy Concept Name

Papillary_Muscle

Preferred_Name

Papillary Muscle

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C33259

Semantic_Type

Anatomical Structure

UMLS_CUI

C0030352

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C13056

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