Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation Ontology

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Preferred Name

skin appendage
Synonyms
Definitions

Skin-associated structures that serve a particular function including sensation, contractility, lubrication and heat loss. In humans, some of the more common skin appendages are hairs (sensation, heat loss, filter for breathing, protection), arrector pilli (smooth muscles that pull hairs straight), sebaceous glands (secrete sebum onto hair follicle, which oils the hair), sweat glands (can secrete sweat with strong odour (apocrine) or with a faint odour (merocrine or eccrine)), and nails (protection).
ID

http://purl.org/sig/ont/fma/fma71012
alternate name

skin appendages
definition

Skin-associated structures that serve a particular function including sensation, contractility, lubrication and heat loss. In humans, some of the more common skin appendages are hairs (sensation, heat loss, filter for breathing, protection), arrector pilli (smooth muscles that pull hairs straight), sebaceous glands (secrete sebum onto hair follicle, which oils the hair), sweat glands (can secrete sweat with strong odour (apocrine) or with a faint odour (merocrine or eccrine)), and nails (protection).
Foundational Model of Anatomy ID

http://purl.org/sig/ont/fma/fma71012
has database cross reference

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239288

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_appendage
label

skin appendage
prefLabel

skin appendage
subClassOf

http://purl.org/sig/ont/fma/fma70593
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