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 information
- MESH:D006346
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/362014000
- EMAPA:35400
- GAID:562
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0018819
- UMLS:C0018819 (ncithesaurus:Heart_Septum)
- XAO:0004141
- MA:0000083
- FMA:7180
- NCIT:C49485
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
in GO, septum morphogenesis is part of cardiac chamber morphogenesis; need to add axioms to infer this
'Terrestrial vertebrates have divided hearts in which septae separate the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood within the pulmonary and systemic circulations'
Term relations
- septum
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some heart
- adjacent_to some cardiac chamber
- contributes to morphology of some heart