atrium of the heart

Questions about atrium of the heart

What does atrium of the heart mean?

atrium of the heart means "the upper chamber of each half of the heart".

What is another word for atrium of the heart?

Close synonyms include atrium cordis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atrium of the heart a common word?

atrium of the heart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.