hair outer root sheath

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0005942

A stratified epithelium that surrounds the hair follicle that merges proximally with the basal layer of the interfollicular epidermis and distally with the hair bulb. [ https://github.com/obophenotype/mouse-anatomy-ontology/issues/56 http://www.keratin.com/aa/aa022.shtml http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.005 ]

Synonyms: outer root sheath of hair follicle, hair follicle outer root sheath, external root sheath of hair follicle

database cross reference

Subsets

pheno_slim

has related synonym

ORS, outer root sheath, outer hair sheath

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0005942

prefLabel

Outer root sheath of hair follicle

Subclass of:

Related from:

part of