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CROSS-SPECIES ANATOMY - ANNOTATIONS

The Basic subset of the UBERON integrated, cross-species anatomy ontology is downloaded weekly from http://berkeleybop.org/ontologies/uberon/basic.obo. For more information about this ontology see the "About" page on the UBERON website at http://uberon.github.io/about.html.

Term:endometrium
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Definition:The glandular mucous membrane lining of the uterine cavity that is hormonally responsive during the estrous/menstrual cycle and during pregnancy.
Comment:[homology-note] "The maternal part of the placenta (of eutherian mammals) is the vascularized and glandular uterine lining, or endometrium.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0001285", ontology="VHOG", source="ISBN:978-0030223693 Liem KF, Bemis WE, Walker WF, Grande L, Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates: An Evolutionary Perspective (2001) p.144", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}; [taxon-note] "Animals that have estrous cycles reabsorb the endometrium if conception does not occur during that cycle. Animals that have menstrual cycles shed the endometrium through menstruation instead"
Synonyms:exact_synonym: tunica mucosa (endometrium);   tunica mucosa uteri;   uterine endometrium
 related_synonym: uterine mucosa;   uterine mucous membrane
 xref: BTO:0001422;   CALOHA:TS-0276;   EFO:0000980;   EMAPA:29917;   EV:0100115;   FMA:17742;   GAID:377;   MA:0000390;   MAT:0000319;   MESH:D004717;   MIAA:0000319;   NCI:C12313;   SCTID:278867007;   UMLS:C0014180;   VHOG:0001285;   Wikipedia:Endometrium
 relational_adjective: endometrial
 external_ontology: present_in_taxon NCBITaxon:9606



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          multicellular anatomical structure 0
            reproductive structure 0
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                endometrium 0
                  cervical mucosa + 0
                  endometrial blood vessel + 0
                  endometrial lymphatic vessel 0
                  endometrial stroma 0
                  endometrium epithelium + 0
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      material anatomical entity 0
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          multicellular anatomical structure 0
            multicellular organism 0
              anatomical system 0
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                    oviduct 0
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                          uterine wall 0
                            endometrium 0
                              cervical mucosa + 0
                              endometrial blood vessel + 0
                              endometrial lymphatic vessel 0
                              endometrial stroma 0
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