portion of tissue

Definition

Multicellular anatomical structure that consists of many cells of one or a few types, arranged in an extracellular matrix such that their long-range organisation is at least partly a repetition of their short-range organisation.

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/).

Sub-structures

• portion of connective tissue

Neighbouring structures

• anatomical cluster
• cardinal organ part
• cardinal tissue part
• organ
• subdivision of cardinal body part

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Identifiers

FMA

9637

UBERON

0000479

Wikidata

Q40397