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Question

Papillary muscles are associated with

Options

A.Ventricles
B.Auricles
C.Dorsal aorta
D.Chordaetendinae

Solution

-he papillary muscles are muscles located in the ventricles of the heart. They attach to the cusps of the atrioventricular valves(also known as the mitral and tricuspid valves) via the chordae tendineae and contract to prevent inversion or prolapse of these valves on systole (or ventricular contraction).[1]

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