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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:lingual swellings
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Accession:UBERON:0006260 term browser browse the term
Comment:the collection consisting of the two lateral swellings and the medial swelling; [homology-note] "Most adult amphibians have a tongue, as do all known reptiles, birds and mammals. Thus it is likely that the tongue appeared with the establishment of tetrapods and this structure seems to be related, to some extant, to the terrestrial lifestyle.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0000449", ontology="VHOG", source="DOI:10.1046/j.1469-7580.2002.00073.x Iwasaki S, Evolution of the structure and function of the vertebrate tongue. J Anat (2002)", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}
Synonyms:related_synonym: lingual swelling
 xref: EHDAA2:0000996;   EMAPA:17186;   VHOG:0000449



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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        developing anatomical structure 0
          future tongue 0
            lingual swellings 0
              anterior part of tongue 0
              lateral lingual swelling + 0
              median lingual swelling + 0
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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          multicellular anatomical structure 0
            multicellular organism 0
              embryo 0
                embryonic structure 0
                  presumptive structure 0
                    presumptive gut 0
                      digestive tract 0
                        subdivision of digestive tract 0
                          foregut 0
                            pharyngeal region of foregut 0
                              pharyngeal arch system 0
                                pharyngeal arch 0
                                  pharyngeal arch 1 0
                                    lingual swellings 0
                                      anterior part of tongue 0
                                      lateral lingual swelling + 0
                                      median lingual swelling + 0
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