Prominent muscular ridges, which extend along the inner surface of the right auricle, across the adjacent anterior wall of the right atrium are called ________.

A) moderator bands
B) pectinate muscles
C) trabeculae carneae
D) papillary muscles
E) chordae tendineae


Ans: B) pectinate muscles

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