endometrium
The glandular mucous membrane lining of the uterine cavity that is hormonally responsive during the estrous/menstrual cycle and during pregnancy. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb MP:0004896 MESH:A05.360.319.679.490 ]
Synonyms: tunica mucosa (endometrium), uterine endometrium, tunica mucosa uteri
Term info
- NCIT:C12313
- VHOG:0001285
- MA:0000390
- UMLS:C0014180 (ncithesaurus:Endometrium)
- MESH:D004717
- GAID:377
- Wikipedia:Endometrium
- EV:0100115
- BTO:0001422
- EFO:0000980
- MAT:0000319
- EMAPA:29917
- SCTID:278867007
- CALOHA:TS-0276
- FMA:17742
- MIAA:0000319
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
The mucous membrane lining the uterus. [TFD][VHOG]
The maternal part of the placenta (of eutherian mammals) is the vascularized and glandular uterine lining, or endometrium.[well established][VHOG]
endometrial
Animals that have estrous cycles reabsorb the endometrium if conception does not occur during that cycle. Animals that have menstrual cycles shed the endometrium through menstruation instead
in FMA this is subdivided into basal and outer
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Illu_cervix.jpg
uterine mucosa, uterine mucous membrane
uberon
UBERON:0001295
Endometrium
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- anatomical entity
- reproductive system mucosa
- part of some uterine wall
- only in taxon some Mammalia
- contributes to morphology of some uterus