Interventricular septum

Interventricular septum

Section of the heart showing the ventricular septum.

Interior of dorsal half of heart of human embryo of about thirty-five days. (Labeled as 'septum inferius')
Details
Artery anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery and Posterior interventricular artery
Identifiers
Latin s. interventriculare cordis
MeSH A07.541.459
TA A12.1.00.013
FMA 7133

Anatomical terminology

The interventricular septum (IVS), (or ventricular septum, or during development septum inferius), is the stout wall separating the lower chambers (the ventricles) of the heart from one another.

The ventricular septum is directed obliquely backward to the right, and curved with the convexity toward the right ventricle; its margins correspond with the anterior and posterior longitudinal sulci.

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