Primitive ventricle

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Primitive ventricle
Heart of human embryo of about fourteen days.
Interior of dorsal half of heart from a human embryo of about thirty days.
Gray's	subject #135 512
Carnegie stage	11
Gives rise to	right ventricle, left ventricle

The primitive ventricle becomes divided by a septum, the septum inferius or ventricular septum, which grows upward from the lower part of the ventricle, its position being indicated on the surface of the heart by a furrow.

Its dorsal part increases more rapidly than its ventral portion, and fuses with the dorsal part of the septum intermedium.

For a time an interventricular foramen exists above its ventral portion, but this foramen is ultimately closed by the fusion of the aortic septum with the ventricular septum.

[edit] External links

• Overview at mcgill.ca
• Description and diagram at umich.edu

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