right atrium

1. 1.

   the right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the venae cavae and coronary sinus

   Synonymsright atrium of the heartatrium dextrum

   Broaderatrium cordis

Questions about right atrium

What does right atrium mean?

right atrium means "the right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the venae cavae and coronary sinus".

What is another word for right atrium?

Close synonyms include right atrium of the heart, atrium dextrum. 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 right atrium a common word?

right atrium 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.