elastic cartilage tissue
Cartilage tissue that is flexible and contains abundant elastic fibers. [ PSPUB:0000170 VSAO:0000091 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 ]
Synonyms: yellow elastic cartilage, elastic cartilage, yellow elastic cartilage tissue, elastic cartilage tissue
Term info
- MA:0000107
- Wikipedia:Elastic_cartilage
- XAO:0004197
- MA:0000485
- UMLS:C0682559 (ncithesaurus:Elastic_Cartilage)
- VSAO:0000091
- NCIT:C32494
- FMA:64785
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
Cartilage tissue that is flexible and contains abundant elastic fibers.[VSAO], Cartilage (tissue) which consists of chondrocytes and collagen, the intercellular matrix of which consists of elastic fibers[FMA:64785].
MA has a distinct class for yellow
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reticular cartilage, yellow cartilage
uberon
UBERON:0001996
Elastic cartilage
Term relations
- non-mineralized cartilage tissue
- develops from some cartilaginous condensation
- has part some elastic fiber
- has quality some flexible