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Chordae Tendineae

"Chordae Tendineae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The tendinous cords that connect each cusp of the two atrioventricular HEART VALVES to appropriate PAPILLARY MUSCLES in the HEART VENTRICLES, preventing the valves from reversing themselves when the ventricles contract.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chordae Tendineae" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Chordae Tendineae" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2006 and 2016 and 2017 and 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.