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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:irregular bone
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Definition:The irregular bones are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as long bone, short bone, flat bone or sesamoid bone. Irregular bones serve various purposes in the body, such as protection of nervous tissue, affording multiple anchor points for skeletal muscle attachment (as with the sacrum), and maintaining pharynx and trachea support, and tongue attachment (such as the hyoid bone). They consist of cancellous tissue enclosed within a thin layer of compact bone. The irregular bones are: the vertebrC&, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, palatine, inferior nasal concha, and hyoid.
Synonyms:related_synonym: os irregulare
 xref: FMA:7477;   NCI:C32881;   SCTID:421560006;   UMLS:C0502414;   Wikipedia:Irregular_bone



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    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          anatomical system 0
            organ 0
              skeletal element 0
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                  irregular bone 0
                    coccyx 0
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                    hyoid bone + 0
                    inferior nasal concha + 0
                    jugal bone + 0
                    lacrimal bone 0
                    palatine bone + 0
                    vertebra + 0
                    vomer + 0
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          multicellular anatomical structure 0
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              anatomical system 0
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                  skeletal system 0
                    skeletal element 0
                      bone element 0
                        irregular bone 0
                          coccyx 0
                          fused sacrum + 0
                          hyoid bone + 0
                          inferior nasal concha + 0
                          jugal bone + 0
                          lacrimal bone 0
                          palatine bone + 0
                          vertebra + 0
                          vomer + 0
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