loading...| Preferred Name | occipital bone | |
| Synonyms |
os occipitale occipital squama occipital complex |
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| Definitions |
The bone at the lower, posterior part of the skull. |
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| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001676 |
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| adjacent to | ||
| database_cross_reference |
EMAPA:25112 MESH:D009777 UMLS:C0028784 Wikipedia:Occipital_bone SCTID:181796003 NCIT:C12757 FMA:52735 GAID:227 MA:0001468 |
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| definition |
The bone at the lower, posterior part of the skull. |
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| depiction |
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Gray194.png |
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| develops_from | ||
| hasOBONamespace |
uberon |
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| hasRelatedSynonym |
os occipitale occipital squama occipital complex |
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| id |
UBERON:0001676 |
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| in taxon | ||
| inSubset |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#human_reference_atlas |
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| label |
occipital bone |
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| notation |
UBERON:0001676 |
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| only in taxon | ||
| overlaps | ||
| part_of | ||
| prefLabel |
occipital bone |
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| RO_0002175 | ||
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| UBPROP_0000008 |
fusion of basi-, exo- and supra-occipitals (and maybe tabular) formed from the sclerotome of the occipital somites. It is not present in living or fossil agnathans or cartilaginous fishes, but appears to have arisen in parallel in many bony fishes. Incorporation of the occipital ver- tebrae into the skull was associated with the annexation of the upper part of the spinal cord into the brain, together with the first 2 spinal nerves as cranial nerves XI and XII |
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