loading...| Preferred Name |
Meckel's cartilage |
|
| Synonyms |
ventral mandibular cartilage primary mandinle cartilago arcus pharyngei primi Meckels cartilage |
|
| Definitions |
Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults. |
|
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003107 |
|
| database_cross_reference |
XAO:0003085 VHOG:0000249 AAO:0000289 EMAPA:17635 Wikipedia:Meckel's_cartilage SCTID:308773009 ZFA:0001205 TAO:0001205 EHDAA2:0001072 EHDAA:7997 FMA:295784 MA:0001580 |
|
| definition |
Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults. |
|
| develops_from | ||
| external_definition |
Paired, rod-shaped elements that extend the length of the mandible and lie between the dentaries and the angulosplenials. Can be reduced to various extent in adults.[AAO] Pharyngeal arch cartilage that is the cartilaginous embryonic component of the lower jaw, or ventral mandibular arch. It develops into the endochondral articular and retroarticular bones. Meckel's cartilage is paired.[TAO] |
|
| has_exact_synonym |
ventral mandibular cartilage primary mandinle cartilago arcus pharyngei primi Meckels cartilage |
|
| has_obo_namespace |
uberon |
|
| homology_notes |
In all jawed vertebrates, including fish, the first pharyngeal arch generates the jaw apparatus. The neural crest cells of this arch migrate to form Meckel's cartilage, the precursor of the jaw.[well established][VHOG] |
|
| id |
UBERON:0003107 |
|
| in_subset |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#vertebrate_core |
|
| label |
Meckel's cartilage |
|
| notation |
UBERON:0003107 |
|
| part_of | ||
| prefLabel |
Meckel's cartilage |
|
| taxon_notes |
functional lower jaw of Elasmobranchii and Holocephali, the embryonic lower jaw of other gnathostomous vertebrates |
|
| treeView |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0008895 |
|
| subClassOf |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0011004 |