epidermal placode
Portion of tissue that is a thickening and reshaping of the epidermal basal stratum cells beneath which fibroblasts accumulate to form the scale primordium. [ http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-081008-12 ]
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epidermal placode
teleost_anatomy_curators
uberon/phenoscape-anatomy
This class was sourced from an external ontology (teleost_anatomy). Its definitions, naming conventions and relationships may need to be checked for compatibility with uberon