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subdivision of organism along main body axis

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0011676

A major subdivision of an organism that divides an organism along its main body axis (typically anterio-posterior axis). In vertebrates, this is based on the vertebral column. [ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Synonyms: axial subdivision of organism

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Subsets

upper_level

editor note

Ideally this would be disjoint with analagous class for appendicular axes, but currently 'appendages' like antennae, horns cause a problem

has related synonym

body segment, main body segment

id

UBERON:0011676

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl

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