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hepatic sinusoid

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001281

Wide thin-walled blood vessels in the liver. In mammals they have neither veinous or arterial markers. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic_sinusoid http://zfin.org/cgi-bin/ZFIN_jump?record=curator ]

Synonyms: vas capillare sinusoideum, liver sinusoid, liver hepatic sinusoids, liver sinusoidal blood vessel, vas sinusoideum, sinusoid of liver, sinusoidal blood vessel of liver

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uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000003

(...) the amphibian liver has characteristics in common with both fish and terrestrial vertebrates. (...) The histological structure of the liver is similar to that in other vertebrates, with hepatocytes arranged in clusters and cords separated by a meshwork of sinusoids and the presence of the traditional triad of portal venule, hepatic arteriole, and bile duct.[well established][VHOG]

has related synonym

hepatic sinusoids

has alternative id

UBERON:0003275

id

UBERON:0001281

prefLabel

Hepatic sinusoid

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606