National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Exencephaly

Synonyms

Exencephaly

EXENCEPHALY

Definitions

A congenital abnormality characterized by the extrusion of the brain outside of the skull.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C124531

ALT_DEFINITION

Brain protrudes outside the skull due to absence of all or part of the cranial vault. (Makris S, Solomon HM, Clark R, Shiota K, Barbellion S, Buschmann J, Ema M, Fujiwara M, Grote K, Hazelden KP, Hew KW, Horimoto M, Ooshima Y, Parkinson M, Wise LD. Terminology of developmental abnormalities in common laboratory mammals (Version 2). Part B. Birth Defects Res B Dev Reprod Toxicol. 2009 Aug;86(4):227-327.)

code

C124531

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C124310

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C77526

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

A congenital abnormality characterized by the extrusion of the brain outside of the skull.

FULL_SYN

Exencephaly

EXENCEPHALY

label

Exencephaly

Preferred_Name

Exencephaly

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C124531

Semantic_Type

Disease or Syndrome

UMLS_CUI

C0266453

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C2849

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