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pharyngeal cleft

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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

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

UBPROP 0000012

EMAPA distinguishes between the groove ectoderm and epithelium, with the latter arising after the former

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Kiemenbogen.jpg

editor note

Note we use overlaps as the relationship to the arches

has related synonym

pharyngeal ectodermal cleft, Kiemenspalten, branchial cleft, sulcus pharyngei, branchial groove, pharyngeal slit

has broad synonym

pharyngeal groove

has narrow synonym

gill cleft

id

UBERON:0005879

prefLabel

pharyngeal cleft