loading...| Preferred Name | irregular bone | |
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os irregulare |
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| Definitions |
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. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0008001 |
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| alternative label |
os irregulare |
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os irregulare |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular_bone http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/421560006 http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0502414 UMLS:C0502414 NCIT:C32881 FMA:7477 |
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irregular bone |
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UBERON:0008001 |
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irregular bone |
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| textual 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. |
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