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trachea cartilage

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003604


The ring-shaped cartilaginous structures that support the trachea. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 J:97123 MP:0003120 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb ]

Synonyms: cartilaginous trachea cartilage, windpipe cartilage, cartilage of windpipe, cartilage of trachea, tracheal cartilage, cartilago trachealis, cartilaginous ring of trachea

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000008

in mammals the rings are incomplete, in avians the rings are complete.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Gray952.png

editor note

check whether to classify as part of splanchoncranium

has related synonym

cartilagines tracheales, trachea ring, tracheal ring, ring of the trachea, cartilage of the trachea

id

UBERON:0003604

prefLabel

Tracheal cartilage

present in taxon

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