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marginal zone of spleen
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the zone between the red and white pulp of the spleen containing numerous macrophages and lymphocytes, and a rich plexus of sinusoids supplied by white pulp arterioles carrying blood-borne antigens [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Term info
Label
marginal zone of spleen
Synonyms
- junctional zone of spleen
- spleen marginal zone
Subsets
pheno_slim
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external ontology notes
WP says - (Some sources consider it to be the part of red pulp which borders on the white pulp, while other sources consider it to be neither red pulp nor white pulp.) - we use the adjacency relation here so it overlaps neither. FMA considers this an anatomical line.
has broad synonym
marginal zone
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0001251
Term relations
Subclass of:
- organ part
- mesoderm-derived structure
- adjacent_to some red pulp of spleen
- adjacent_to some white pulp of spleen
- part of some spleen