loading...| Preferred Name |
cloaca |
| Synonyms |
vent cloacal chamber |
| Definitions |
Common chamber into which the intestines and excretory system opens. Arises during development in all vertebrates, but in many it becomes subdivided, lost or incorporated into other structures. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000162 |
| database_cross_reference |
ZFA:0005781 NCIT:C34127 XAO:0000244 SCTID:362857006 SCTID:370631000 MESH:D002988 VHOG:0001186 UMLS:C0008987 Wikipedia:Cloaca GAID:1206 AAO:0000095 |
| definition |
Common chamber into which the intestines and excretory system opens. Arises during development in all vertebrates, but in many it becomes subdivided, lost or incorporated into other structures. |
| editor note |
adding df link to embryonic cloaca leads to a cycle in uberon-simple, as cloaca is a suberclass of embryonic cloaca |
| has_obo_namespace |
uberon |
| has_related_synonym |
vent cloacal chamber |
| id |
UBERON:0000162 |
| label |
cloaca |
| notation |
UBERON:0000162 |
| only in taxon | |
| part_of | |
| prefLabel |
cloaca |
| RO_0002175 | |
| treeView | |
| UBPROP_0000001 |
Anatomical structure which is the common receptacle for the alimentary canal, Wolffian ducts, oviducts, and the bladder.[AAO] A common passage for fecal, urinary, and reproductive discharge in most lower vertebrates as well as the terminal end of the hindgut before division into rectum, bladder, and genital primordia in mammalian embryos. [TFD][VHOG] |
| UBPROP_0000003 |
A cloaca is apparently a primitive vertebrate feature because it occurs in most primitive gnathostomes and persists in the embryos of almost all vertebrates.[well established][VHOG] |
| UBPROP_0000007 |
cloacal |
| UBPROP_0000008 |
Human beings only have an embryonic cloaca, which is split up into separate tracts during the development of the urinary and reproductive organs |
| UBPROP_0000011 |
hindgut endoderm and proctodeal ectoderm. |
| subClassOf |