Preferred Label : primary circulatory organ;
Uberon definition : A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation
of the blood or analogs[GO,modified].;
Uberon related term : adult heart;
Uberon narrow term : heart; dorsal tube;
Uberon Taxon note : note we reserve the subclass 'heart' from the vertebrate multi-chambered heart. 'The
first heart-like organ is believed to have appeared 500my ago in an ancestral bilaterian'.
Amniotes: four-chambered heart. Amphibians: two atria, one ventricle, pulmonary; fish:
single atrium and ventricle; amphioxus: tubular, non-striated, closed, unidirectional;
ascidians: tubular, striated, open, bidirectional; arthropods: tubular, open; C elegans:
contractile pharynx; Cnideria: striated muscle cells associated with gastrodermis;
Origin ID : 0007100;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Heart [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Heart [ICNP localization]
- heart [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- heart [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- heart [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation
of the blood or analogs[GO,modified].
