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costal cartilage

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002236


the nonvascular, resilient, flexible hyaline connective tissue that connects the end of a true rib to the sternum or the end of a false rib with the with the lower border of the costal cartilage above it [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-8036-0655-9 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb ]

Term info

Label

costal cartilage

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Gray315.png

editor note

we currently model this as part of the rib, is this correct?

has related synonym

cartilago costalis, sternal cartilage, cartilagines costales

id

UBERON:0002236

Term relations

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