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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:saliva
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Accession:UBERON:0001836 term browser browse the term
Definition:A fluid produced in the oral cavity by salivary glands, typically used in predigestion, but also in other functions.
Comment:[taxon-note] "We classify a wide variety of not necessarily homologous fluids here. In humans, the saliva is a turbid and slightly viscous fluid, generally of an alkaline reaction, and is secreted by the parotid, submaxillary, and sublingual glands. In the mouth the saliva is mixed with the secretion from the buccal glands. In man and many animals, saliva is an important digestive fluid on account of the presence of the peculiar enzyme, ptyalin" xsd:string {source="GO"}
Synonyms:exact_synonym: salivary gland secretion
 related_synonym: sailva normalis;   saliva atomaris;   saliva molecularis
 xref: BTO:0001202;   CALOHA:TS-0891;   EMAPA:36536;   ENVO:02000036;   FMA:59862;   GAID:1167;   MA:0002507;   MAT:0000444;   MESH:D012463;   NCI:C13275;   UMLS:C0036087;   Wikipedia:Saliva;   galen:Saliva
 relational_adjective: salivary



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