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bone tissue

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Skeletal tissue with a collagen-rich extracellular matrix vascularized, mineralized with hydroxyapatite and typically including osteocytes located in lacunae that communicate with one another by cell processes (in canaliculi). Bone is deposited by osteoblasts. [ http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 ]

Term info

Label

bone tissue

Synonyms
  • calcium tissue
  • osseous tissue
  • osteogenic tissue
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

editor note

see https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/27

external definition

Skeletal tissue with a collagen-rich extracellular matrix vascularized, mineralized with hydroxyapatite and typically including osteocytes located in lacunae that communicate with one another by cell processes (in canaliculi). Bone is deposited by osteoblasts.[VSAO]

has narrow synonym

mineralized bone tissue

has related synonym

bone, portion of bone tissue

id

UBERON:0002481