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urinary bladder
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001255
Distensible musculomembranous organ situated in the anterior part of the pelvic cavity in which urine collects before excretion[MP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_bladder http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna ]
Term info
Label
urinary bladder
Synonyms
- vesica urinaria
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim, major_organ, human_reference_atlas
RO 0002175
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
depicted by
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Urinary_system.svg
external definition
A saccular organ in which urine accumulates before discharge from the body. [Bemis_WE, Functional_Anatomy_of_the_Vertebrates:_An_Evolutionary_Perspective, Glossary_G-29, Grande_L, Liem_KF, Third_Edition_(2001)_Orlando_Fla.:_Harcourt_College_Publishers, Walker_WF][VHOG], Anatomical structure which consists of a membranous sac used to temporarily store urine until it is excreted from the body.[AAO]
has broad synonym
bladder
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
vesica, urocyst
has relational adjective
vesical
homology notes
In tetrapods, the urinary bladder arises as an outpocketing of the cloaca. (...) The tetrapod urinary bladder appears first among amphibians and is present in Sphenodon, turtles, most lizards, ostriches among birds, and all mammals.[well established][VHOG]
id
UBERON:0001255
never in taxon
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_8782
taxon notes
The urinary bladder evolved in tetrapods. Birds to not possess a true urinary bladder, although Palaeognathae have an undifferentiated cloacal outpocketing that serves a similar function[https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/454]