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endocardium
Sign in to savethumb|Illustration depicting the layers of the heart wall including the innermost endocardium
Key facts
- Anatomy.Name
- Endocardium
- Anatomy.Latin
- endocardium
- Anatomy.Image
- Gray493.png
- Anatomy.Caption
- Interior of right side of heart
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
10,044 papers- The endocardium.Annual review of physiology · 1989
- Development of the endocardium.Pediatric cardiology · 2010
- Endocardium gives rise to blood cells in zebrafish embryos.Cell reports · 2024
- Myocardium and endocardium of the early mammalian heart tube arise from independent multipotent lineages specified at the primitive streak.Developmental cell · 2025
- Extension of Endocardium-Derived Vessels Generate Coronary Arteries in Neonates.Circulation research · 2022
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Function
- Clinical significance
- References
- External links
thumb|Illustration depicting the layers of the heart wall including the innermost endocardium
The endocardium (: endocardia) is the innermost layer of tissue that lines the chambers of the heart. Its cells are embryologically and biologically similar to the endothelial cells that line blood vessels. The endocardium also provides protection to the valves and heart chambers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “endocardium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.