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pontine flexure
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A dorsally concave bend of the embryonic rhombencephalon that produces a thinning of the roof of the pons and medulla oblongata and defines the boundary between the metencephalon and myelencephalon in the embryo[MP]. [ ]
Term info
Label
pontine flexure
Synonyms
- (embryonic) hindbrain flexure
- basicranial flexure
- pontal flexure
- transverse rhombencephalic flexure
Subsets
pheno_slim
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0005820
Term relations
Equivalent to:
- neuraxis flexure and part of some presumptive hindbrain and continuous_with some metencephalon and continuous_with some myelencephalon
Subclass of:
- neuraxis flexure
- continuous_with some myelencephalon
- continuous_with some metencephalon
- part of some presumptive hindbrain