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body of pancreas

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001150


The body of the pancreas is a subsection of the pancreas organ in the human body. It is somewhat prismatic in shape, and has three surfaces: anterior, posterior, and inferior. It is at the same level as the transpyloric plane. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_pancreas ]

Synonyms: pancreatic body, pancreas body

Term info

database cross reference
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uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000003

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]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Illu_pancreas_duodenum.jpg

has related synonym

pancreas corpus, corpus pancreatis

id

UBERON:0001150

prefLabel

Body of pancreas

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

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