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sex cord
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0005295
Term info
Label
sex cord
definition
Cordlike masses of epithelial tissue that invaginate from germinal epithelium of the gonad and give rise to seminiferous tubules and rete testes in the male, and primary ovarian follicles and rete ovarii in the female.
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
primitive sex cord, gonadal cord, gonad cord, genital cord
id
UBERON:0005295
imported from
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl