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occipital lobe
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Posterior part of the cerebral hemisphere (MSH). [ ]
Term info
Label
occipital lobe
Synonyms
- regio occipitalis
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
RO 0002175
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
comment
In some species, parcellations of lobes are not well defined or at all, and therefore the occipital lobe could refer to the most posterior mammalian cerebral cortex.
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gray727_occipital_lobe.png
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
lobus occipitalis
id
UBERON:0002021