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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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