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bone marrow

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002371

The soft tissue that fills the cavities of bones. [ MP:0002397 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg ]

Synonyms: medulla ossium, medulla ossea

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000003

The bone marrow is the hematopoietic organ in all vertebrates but fishes, in which hematopoiesis occurs in the kidney.[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000009

In adults, marrow in large bones produces new blood cells[Wikipedia:Bone_marrow]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Gray72-en.svg

editor note

consider placement of NCIT:C53466 medullary bone, TODO - create superclass for bone marrow / head kidney. both are portions of tissue in the hematopoetic system. also consider adding as subclass of zone of bone organ for consistency with FMA. See also: Leydig and epigonal organs

has related synonym

medulla of bone, medullary bone

id

UBERON:0002371

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl

prefLabel

Bone marrow

present in taxon

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