n. any of the tendons extending from the papillary muscles to the atrioventricular valves and preventing the valves from moving into the atria during ventricular contraction
Gramps had his heart valve and the chordae tendineae replaced.
Gramps had his heart valve and the chordae tendineae replaced.
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tendinouschords; heart strings; cord-liketendons in the heart
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