Intervenous tubercle

Tuberculum intervenosum

  • Eponym: Lower

Definition

Antoine Micheau

The intervenous tubercle is muscular ridge located on the drosal wall of the right atrium of the heart, between the openings of the cranial vena cava and caudal vena cava. It diverts the converging inflowing blood from the two caval veins into the right ventricle

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