mouth floor

Definition

The ventral area of the mouth. In organisms with a tongue, this is the area under the ventral surface of the tongue[ncit, modified].

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Neighbouring structures

• buccal mucosa
• frenulum of lip
• secondary palate
• tooth row
• faucial part of mouth
• gingiva of lower jaw
• gingiva of upper jaw
• mandibular part of mouth
• maxillary part of mouth
• soft palate
• tongue

Identifiers

FMA

86592

UBERON

0003679

Wikidata

Q65943065