pharyngeal cleft
An external pocketing of pharyngeal ectoderm that contacts a region of endoderm (a pharyngeal pouch) and interdigitates in the anterior and posterior directions by the pharyngeal arches. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23020903 ]
Synonyms: pharyngeal groove ectoderm
Term info
- NCIT:C34250
- AAO:0010623
- FMA:295672
- Wikipedia:Pharyngeal_groove
- EMAPA:32750
- UMLS:C1280559 (ncithesaurus:Pharyngeal_Groove)
pheno_slim
EMAPA distinguishes between the groove ectoderm and epithelium, with the latter arising after the former
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Kiemenbogen.jpg
Note we use overlaps as the relationship to the arches
pharyngeal ectodermal cleft, Kiemenspalten, branchial cleft, sulcus pharyngei, branchial groove, pharyngeal slit
pharyngeal groove
gill cleft
uberon
UBERON:0005879
pharyngeal cleft
Term relations
- anatomical entity
- surface groove
- overlaps some pharyngeal arch
- adjacent_to some pharyngeal pouch
- part of some pharyngeal ectoderm