intervertebral disk

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001066

A pad of fibrocartilage between the articular surfaces of two successive vertebral centra which has nucleus pulposus at its core. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0073040584&isbn=1/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervertebral_disk ]

Synonyms: discus intervertebralis, intervertebral disc, spinal disc

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Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

UBPROP 0000008

strictly speaking the term intervertebral disk [applies to intervertebral cartilage]

comment

whose gel-like core is nucleus puloposus, by this definition only in mammals

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Gray301.png

has related synonym

intervertebral fibrocartilage, spinal disk

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0001066

prefLabel

intervertebral disk, Intervertebral disk

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