loading...| Preferred Name |
oviduct |
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| Synonyms |
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| Definitions |
A tube or collection of tubes in an animal from the ovaries to the outside of the body. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000993 |
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| curator note |
sometimes oviduct is used interchangeably with follaopian tube. Here they are different - the oviduct connects the gonad to the outside in a variety of animals. The mammal-class fallopian tube is derived from the mullerian duct and connects the gonads/infubdibulum to the uterus |
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| definition |
A tube or collection of tubes in an animal from the ovaries to the outside of the body. |
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| homology notes |
In all remaining vertebrates (i.e., coelacanths, lungfishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals), the oviduct arises in ontogeny as a longitudinal, groovelike invagination of the coelomic epithelium on the lateral surface of the mesonephros |
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oviduct |
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| prefixIRI |
UBERON:0000993 |
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oviduct |
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