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cell body

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0044297

The portion of a cell bearing surface projections such as axons, dendrites, cilia, or flagella that includes the nucleus, but excludes all cell projections. [ GOC:go_curators ]

Synonyms: cell soma

Term info

comment

Note that 'cell body' and 'cell soma' are not used in the literature for cells that lack projections, nor for some cells (e.g. yeast with mating projections) that do have projections.

creation date

2010-02-05T10:37:16Z

has obo namespace

cellular_component

id

GO:0044297

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4890

prefLabel

Cell body

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