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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:milk
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Accession:UBERON:0001913 term browser browse the term
Definition:An emulsion of fat globules within a fluid that is secreted by the mammary gland during lactation.
Comment:[homology-note] "The detailed similarities of mammary glands in living monotremes, marsupials, and eutherians argue for a monophyletic origin of these glands, perhaps by the combination of parts of preexisting sebaceous and sweat glands.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0001263", ontology="VHOG", source="ISBN:978-0072528305 Kardong KV, Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution (2006) p.224", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}
Synonyms:exact_synonym: mammary gland milk
 xref: BTO:0000868;   CALOHA:TS-0636;   EMAPA:36540;   ENVO:02000031;   EV:0100126;   FMA:62100;   GAID:1230;   MA:0002552;   MAT:0000056;   MESH:D008892;   MIAA:0000056;   NCI:C13401;   UMLS:C1511310;   VHOG:0001263;   Wikipedia:Breast_milk;   galen:Milk


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      material anatomical entity 0
        organism substance 0
          bodily fluid 0
            milk 0
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    anatomical entity 0
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        anatomical structure 0
          multicellular anatomical structure 0
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                secretion of exocrine gland 0
                  mammary gland fluid/secretion 0
                    milk 0
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