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The cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-normally
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: heartstrings
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from New Latin chordae tendineae (literally “tendinous (tendon-like) cords”), from Latin chordae (plural of chorda (“cord, rope”)) + New Latin tendineae (plural of tendinea (“tendinous”), from Medieval Latin tendō (“tendon”)).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
腱索
(jiànsuǒ)
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Dutch:
peesdraden
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Finnish:
jännerihmat
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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French:
chordae tendineae
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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French:
cordes tendineuses
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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German:
Sehnenfäden
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Hungarian:
ínhúr
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Italian:
corda tendinea
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Norwegian Bokmål:
hjerterøtter
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Portuguese:
cordas tendíneas
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Serbo-Croatian:
srčane niti
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Spanish:
cuerdas tendinosas
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
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Tagalog:
bagting ng puso
— cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart
