transition zone of prostate

Definition

The region of the prostate gland anterior to the central and peripheral zones, surrounding the proximal urethra. It is the zone of the human prostate gland that grows the most throughout life, and is responsible for benign prostatic hypertrophy.

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

• left transition zone of prostate
• right transition zone of prostate

Neighbouring structures

• anterior fibromuscular stroma of prostate
• apex of prostate
• base of prostate
• central zone of prostate
• peripheral zone of prostate
• prostate duct
• prostate duct
• prostatic utricle
• verumontanum

Identifiers

UBERON

8410025