interatrial communication

  • 1Primary interatrial foramen — Interior of dorsal half of heart from a human embryo of about thirty days. (Ostium primum visible below septum primum, but not labeled.) Latin …

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  • 2Foramen — A natural opening. Although a foramen is usually through bone, it can be an opening through other types of tissue, as with the foramen ovale. * * * An aperture or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure. SYN: trema (1). [L. an… …

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  • 3Atrial septal defect — PFO redirects here. For the airport, see Paphos International Airport. Atrial septal defect Classification and external resources Heart of human embryo of about thirty five days ICD 10 …

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  • 4Fontan procedure — functional correction of tricuspid atresia by anastomosis of, or insertion of a nonvalved prosthesis between, the right atrium and the pulmonary artery with closure of the interatrial communication; it is also used in other selected congenital… …

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  • 5animal development — Introduction  the processes that lead eventually to the formation of a new animal starting from cells derived from one or more parent individuals. Development thus occurs following the process by which a new generation of organisms is produced by …

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  • 6Right atrioventricular orifice — Section of the heart showing the ventricular septum. (Right atrioventricular orifice visible at left, but not labeled.) Latin ostium atrioventriculare dextrum Gray s …

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  • 7septostomy — Surgical creation of a septal defect. [septo + G. stoma, mouth] atrial s. establishment of a communication between the two atria of the heart. SYN: atrioseptostomy. balloon s. s. performed by cardiac …

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  • 8mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …

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  • 9Foramen ovale (heart) — Not to be confused with ostium secundum. Foramen ovale (heart) Sketch showing foramen ovale in a fetal heart. Red arrow shows blood from the inferior caval vein. HF: right atrium, VF: left atrium. HH og VH: right and left ventricle. The heart… …

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  • 10Ostium primum — Infobox Embryology Name = Ostium primum Latin = GraySubject = 135 GrayPage = 512 Caption = Interior of dorsal half of heart from a human embryo of about thirty days. (Ostium primum visible below septum primum, but not labeled.) Caption2 = System …

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