National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Tissue Culture

Synonyms

Tissue Culture

CULTURING

Definitions

Originally the maintenance and growth of pieces of explanted tissue (plant or animal) in culture away from the source organism. Now usually refers to the (much more frequently used) technique of cell culture, using cells dispersed from tissues or distant descendants of such cells.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C17201

ALT_DEFINITION

The act of maintaining and/or attempting to grow explanted cells in an in vitro environment.

code

C17201

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

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

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C124297

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

Originally the maintenance and growth of pieces of explanted tissue (plant or animal) in culture away from the source organism. Now usually refers to the (much more frequently used) technique of cell culture, using cells dispersed from tissues or distant descendants of such cells.

FULL_SYN

Tissue Culture

CULTURING

label

Tissue Culture

Legacy Concept Name

Tissue_Culture

Preferred_Name

Tissue Culture

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C17201

Semantic_Type

Laboratory Procedure

UMLS_CUI

C0040284

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C20368

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