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LEFT AURICLE [2 records]

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Record 1 1998-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
DEF

The left atrium, which receives oxygenated red blood from the lungs, is a thin-walled muscular chamber situated just behind the main left pumping chamber, and it contracts just prior to the left ventricle, thereby helping it to fill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
DEF

Cavité cardiaque qui reçoit le sang des veines pulmonaires.

CONT

Les oreillettes, plus petites que les ventricules, de forme grossièrement cubique, ont des parois minces et lisses; dans l'oreillette droite, débouchent les veines caves supérieure et inférieure; dans l'oreillette gauche, les quatre veines pulmonaires (deux par poumon).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Corazón
DEF

Aurícula del lado izquierdo del corazón, la que recibe la sangre de las venas pulmonares.

CONT

La aurícula derecha recibe la sangre venosa de la totalidad del organismo por medio de las venas cavas, y la aurícula izquierda la sangre oxigenada proveniente de los pulmones.

CONT

En la aurícula izquierda se abre hacia atrás el tronco de las venas pulmonares.

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Record 2 1977-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Gastropods of the] superfamily Neritacea [have a] shell [that is] commonly coiled and ovoid or globular, more rarely capuliform or patelliform; whorls [are] few; [the] spire, if protruding at all, [is] relatively low; [the] outer shell layers [are] calcitic, unusually stable in fossils, commonly preserving [the] color pattern; [the] inner layers [are] thick, aragonitic, lamellar but not nacreous; [the] operculum, not developed in a few genera, [is] commonly calcareous, in many post-Paleozoic genera with processes projecting from [the] inner face and gripping [the] inner lip; living forms [have a] left kidney only; [a] single, bipectinate ctenidium [is] present on [the] left except in terrestrial forms, attached at its base only; [a] single hypobranchial gland, thought to be [a] homologue of [the] right one of other Archeogastropoda, [is] also present; [there is a] heart with 2 auricles, [the] right one in some [is] reduced or with [a] single auricle; pallial genital organs [are] developed and complex, fertilization [is] internal; retractor muscles [are] paired; [the] radula [is] rhipidoglossate, with [the] outermost admedians large, capituliform. "M. Dev.-Rec. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les gastéropodes de la] super-famille des Neritacea [ont une] coquille globuleuse à spire courte et [à] tours fortement jointifs. [La] couche interne [est] porcelanée. [Ils n'ont] pas d'ombilic. [Ils ont un] opercule calcaire.

Spanish

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