papillary muscle

noun

Anatomy.

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of papillary muscle¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

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These patches are especially common in the papillary muscles of the mitral valve—a fact which explains the occasional presence of systolic murmurs in typhoid fever.

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M., contraction of the papillary muscles; Car., carotid pulse.

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These were probably due to irregularity in the action of the papillary muscles as a consequence of the fatigue.

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papillary papilliform

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