urinary bladder

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001255

Distensible musculomembranous organ situated in the anterior part of the pelvic cavity in which urine collects before excretion[MP]. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_bladder ]

Synonyms: vesica urinaria

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BTO:0001418
GAID:0000004
galen:UrinaryBladder
SCTID:302512001
XAO:0000154
FMA:15900
VHOG:0000740
MIAA:0000122
CALOHA:TS-1090
MA:0000380
Wikipedia:Urinary_bladder
EV:0100098
UMLS:C0005682 (ncithesaurus:Bladder)
EHDAA2:0000174
NCIT:C12414
EMAPA:18321
MESH:D001743
AAO:0000623
MAT:0000122
EHDAA:9328
EFO:0000290

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uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim, major_organ, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000001

A saccular organ in which urine accumulates before discharge from the body. [Bemis_WE, Functional_Anatomy_of_the_Vertebrates:_An_Evolutionary_Perspective, Glossary_G-29, Grande_L, Liem_KF, Third_Edition_(2001)_Orlando_Fla.:_Harcourt_College_Publishers, Walker_WF][VHOG], Anatomical structure which consists of a membranous sac used to temporarily store urine until it is excreted from the body.[AAO]

UBPROP 0000003

In tetrapods, the urinary bladder arises as an outpocketing of the cloaca. (...) The tetrapod urinary bladder appears first among amphibians and is present in Sphenodon, turtles, most lizards, ostriches among birds, and all mammals.[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000007

vesical

UBPROP 0000008

The urinary bladder evolved in tetrapods. Birds to not possess a true urinary bladder, although Palaeognathae have an undifferentiated cloacal outpocketing that serves a similar function[https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/454]

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Urinary_system.svg

has related synonym

vesica, urocyst

has broad synonym

bladder

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0001255

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_8782

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