FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits

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Preferred Name

mesopodium bone
Synonyms

carpal/tarsal bone

basipodium bone

mesopod bone

mesopodial bone

Definitions

A bone that is part of a mesopodial skeleton.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003656

database_cross_reference

EMAPA:36579

Wikipedia:Carpus_and_tarsus_of_land_vertebrates

MA:0000295

has_exact_synonym

carpal/tarsal bone

basipodium bone

mesopod bone

mesopodial bone

hasOBONamespace

uberon

id

UBERON:0003656

label

mesopodium bone

notation

UBERON:0003656

part_of

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0009878

prefLabel

mesopodium bone

textual definition

A bone that is part of a mesopodial skeleton.

treeView

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0009878

UBPROP_0000008

The carpus (wrist) and tarsus (ankle) of land vertebrates primitively had three rows of carpal or tarsal bones. Often some of these have become lost or fused in evolution. Three proximals. In the hand humans has all three. In the foot the middle proximal appears in 5-15% of people as an os trigonum. Centrale or os centrale, on the medial side. In humans and our closest relatives the African apes (chimpanzees and gorillas) it fuses to the scaphoid where it forms the articulation with the trapezoid bone; occasionally it stays separate. In Man's foot it is the navicular. Some early land vertebrates had more than one (up to three) os centrale per hand or foot. Distals, one per finger / toe at the base of each metacarpal or metatarsal. In mammals the 4th and 5th fuse. In the horse the 1st is lost

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0013630

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0011250

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001474

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