head of pancreas
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001069
The head of pancreas is a portion of the pancreas that is lodged within the curve of the duodenum, and is flattened anteriorly (from before). The other parts of the pancreas are the body and the tail. Its upper border is overlapped by the superior part of the duodenum and its lower overlaps the horizontal part; its right and left borders overlap in front, and insinuate themselves behind, the descending and ascending parts of the duodenum respectively. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_pancreas ]
Synonyms: right extremity of pancreas, pancreatic head, pancreas head
Term info
- SCTID:362201006
- VHOG:0000448
- NCIT:C12269
- Wikipedia:Head_of_pancreas
- FMA:10468
- MA:0000122
- UMLS:C0227579 (ncithesaurus:Head_of_the_Pancreas)
- EHDAA2:0001374
- EMAPA:17507
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
Hagfish and lampreys may have one or more endocrine buds - and later the vertebrate pancreas develop as independent ventral and dorsal buds that eventually fuse to become one organ.[well established][VHOG]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Illu_pancreas_duodenum.jpg
caput pancreatis
uberon
UBERON:0001069
Head of pancreas
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- Cardinal organ part
- endoderm-derived structure
- part of some pancreas
- develops from some ventral pancreatic bud