Posterior interventricular sulcus

Posterior interventricular sulcus
Base and diaphragmatic surface of heart. (Posterior interventricular sulcus visible at lower left, where the middle cardiac vein is labeled.)
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Latin	Sulcus interventricularis posterior
Dorlands /Elsevier	s_28/12768877
TA	A12.1.00.010
FMA	7178
Anatomical terminology []

The posterior interventricular sulcus or posterior longitudinal sulcus is one of the two grooves that separates the ventricles of the heart and is on the diaphragmatic surface of the heart near the right margin. The other groove is the anterior longitudinal sulcus, situated on the sternocostal surface of the heart, close to its left margin.

In it runs the posterior interventricular artery and middle cardiac vein.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)