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cell type

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000000


A material entity of anatomical origin (part of or deriving from an organism) that has as its parts a maximally connected cell compartment surrounded by a plasma membrane. [ CARO:mah ]

Term info

database cross reference
  • FMA:68646
  • CALOHA:TS-2035
  • MESH:D002477
  • KUPO:0000002
  • XAO:0003012
  • WBbt:0004017
  • GO:0005623
  • VHOG:0001533
  • FBbt:00007002
Subsets

_upper_level

comment

The definition of cell is intended to represent all cells, and thus a cell is defined as a material entity and not an anatomical structure, which implies that it is part of an organism (or the entirety of one).

example of usage

PMID:18089833.Cancer Res. 2007 Dec 15;67(24):12018-25. "...Epithelial cells were harvested from histologically confirmed adenocarcinomas .."

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl

prefLabel

Cell

see also

EFO_URI: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0000324