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trachea cartilage

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the ring-shaped cartilaginous structures that support the trachea [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Term info

Label

trachea cartilage

Synonyms
  • cartilage of trachea
  • cartilage of windpipe
  • cartilaginous ring of trachea
  • cartilaginous trachea cartilage
  • cartilago trachealis
  • tracheal cartilage
  • windpipe cartilage
database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Gray952.png

editor note

check whether to classify as part of splanchoncranium

has related synonym

cartilagines tracheales, trachea ring, tracheal ring, ring of the trachea, cartilage of the trachea

id

UBERON:0003604

taxon notes

in mammals the rings are incomplete, in avians the rings are complete.