Terminology Service for NFDI4Health
muscle tissue
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002385
Vertebrate muscle is categorized into three major muscle types defined by their structural and functional properties: skeletal, cardiac and smooth. In Dmel the counterparts are somatic, heart/cardiac and visceral. Here we take a cell type based approach.
Term info
Label
muscle tissue
Subsets
uberon_slim
definition
Muscle tissue is a contractile tissue made up of actin and myosin fibers[GO].
external definition
One of the four types of tissue in traditional classifications. Tissue that contains cells with contractile filaments that move past each other and change the size of the cell. Muscle tissue also is separated into three distinct categories.[AAO]
has exact synonym
muscular tissue, portion of muscle tissue, textus muscularis
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0002385
imported from
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl
mutually spatially disjoint with
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003714
spatially disjoint from
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003714
Term relations
Subclass of:
- tissue
- material entity
- mesoderm-derived structure
- capable of some muscle contraction
- composed primarily of some muscle cell
- part of some musculature
- only in taxon some Eumetazoa