loading...| Preferred Name |
costal cartilage |
| Synonyms |
cartilagines costales cartilago costalis sternal cartilage |
| Definitions |
The nonvascular, resilient, flexible hyaline connective tissue that connects the end of a true rib to the sternum or the end of a false rib with the with the lower border of the costal cartilage above it. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002236 |
| database_cross_reference |
EMAPA:35262 BTO:0001721 SCTID:244703004 NCIT:C32391 MESH:D066186 MA:0000106 UMLS:C0222787 FMA:7591 Wikipedia:Costal_cartilage |
| definition |
The nonvascular, resilient, flexible hyaline connective tissue that connects the end of a true rib to the sternum or the end of a false rib with the with the lower border of the costal cartilage above it. |
| depicted by |
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Gray315.png |
| editor note |
we currently model this as part of the rib, is this correct? |
| has related synonym |
cartilagines costales cartilago costalis sternal cartilage |
| has_obo_namespace |
uberon |
| id |
UBERON:0002236 |
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| label |
costal cartilage |
| notation |
UBERON:0002236 |
| part_of | |
| prefLabel |
costal cartilage |
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