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papillary muscle

noun

, Anatomy.
  1. 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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