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material entity in digestive tract

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Any material entity that is located in the digestive tract. This includes undigested food and liquid as well as unexcreted waste products. It also includes other entities such as ingested stones used to aid digestion. Any microbial cells or cell populations are also included. [ https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/110 ]

Term info

Label

material entity in digestive tract

Synonyms
  • digestive tract contents
plural term
digestive tract contents

editor note

Note that we treat any material entity that is ingested as an anatomical structure by defintion, although this may be expanding the CARO usage somewhat

has related synonym

ingested material entity

id

UBERON:0035118