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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:ectopic adenohypophysis
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Definition:an anterior pituitary gland located outside of its normal position due to arrest of migration from a pharyngeocranial location to the sellar region; a portion or all of the adenohypophysis may persist in the pathway of the pharyngeal pouch, either in the nasopharyngeal wall or within the sphenoid bone
Synonyms:exact_synonym: ectopic adenophysis;   ectopic anterior pituitary gland;   ectopic anterior pituitary lobe;   ectopic nasopharyngeal pituitary



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  mammalian phenotype 5421
    endocrine/exocrine gland phenotype 394
      abnormal gland morphology 333
        abnormal endocrine gland morphology 164
          abnormal neuroendocrine gland morphology 42
            abnormal pituitary gland morphology 42
              abnormal adenohypophysis morphology 10
                ectopic adenohypophysis 0
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  mammalian phenotype 5421
    nervous system phenotype 380
      abnormal nervous system morphology 217
        abnormal brain morphology 139
          abnormal forebrain morphology 83
            abnormal diencephalon morphology 45
              abnormal pituitary gland morphology 42
                abnormal adenohypophysis morphology 10
                  ectopic adenohypophysis 0
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