PAPILLARY MUSCLE


Meaning of PAPILLARY MUSCLE in English

Anat.

one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.

[ 1885-90 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .