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tendon
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000043
Term info
Label
tendon
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
definition
Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone[VSAO].
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Achilles-tendon.jpg
external definition
Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.[VSAO]
external ontology notes
in FMA, tendon is an organ component that with parts dense-irregular-connective-tissue of tendon and dense-irregular-connective-tissue of tendon sheath; we follow VSAO in making it a subtype of the former. In VSAO tendons connect muscle to bone; in WP the def states integument (e.g. auricular muscles) - but JB confirms this is not actually tendon but aponeurosis
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
tendo, sinew
homology notes
Phylogenetically, tendinous tissue first appears in the invertebrate chordate Branchiostoma as myosepta. This two-dimensional array of collagen fibers is highly organized, with fibers running along two primary axes. In hagfish the first linear tendons appear and the myosepta have developed specialized regions with unidirectional fiber orientation - a linear tendon within the flat sheet of myoseptum.[well established][VHOG]
id
UBERON:0000043
imported from
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl
Term relations
Subclass of:
- dense regular connective tissue
- connects some muscle organ
- part of some musculoskeletal system
- has part some extracellular matrix secreting cell
- connects some bone element
- only in taxon some Vertebrata
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