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Meckel's cartilage

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Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3693112 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meckel's_cartilage ]

Synonyms: primary mandinle, Meckels cartilage, ventral mandibular cartilage, cartilago arcus pharyngei primi

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database cross reference
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uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

UBPROP 0000001

Pharyngeal arch cartilage that is the cartilaginous embryonic component of the lower jaw, or ventral mandibular arch. It develops into the endochondral articular and retroarticular bones. Meckel's cartilage is paired.[TAO], Paired, rod-shaped elements that extend the length of the mandible and lie between the dentaries and the angulosplenials. Can be reduced to various extent in adults.[AAO]

UBPROP 0000003

In all jawed vertebrates, including fish, the first pharyngeal arch generates the jaw apparatus. The neural crest cells of this arch migrate to form Meckel's cartilage, the precursor of the jaw.[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000008

functional lower jaw of Elasmobranchii and Holocephali, the embryonic lower jaw of other gnathostomous vertebrates

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UBERON:0003107

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Meckel's cartilage