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blood vessel

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001981

A vessel through which blood circulates in the body. [ BTO:0001102 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_vessel ]

Synonyms: vascular tree organ region, region of vascular tree organ

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000001

Any of the vessels through which blood circulates in the body.[AAO], Any of the vessels through which blood circulates in the body. [XAO:0001011_][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000003

The appearance of Chordata and subsequently the vertebrates is accompanied by a rapid structural diversification of this primitive linear heart: looping, unidirectional circulation, an enclosed vasculature, and the conduction system.[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000008

annelids have blood vessels, but this class is not applicable to annelids.

UBPROP 0000012

FMA:63183 Blood vessel is categorized as 'general anatomical term'. Suggestion to map to region of vascular tree from Terry H at JAX

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Circulatory_System_en.svg

editor note

consider adopting the EMAPA superclass 'vascular element', which includes microvasculature (e.g. capillaries), vascular plexus

has related synonym

vas sanguineum

has broad synonym

vascular element

id

UBERON:0001981

imported from

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

prefLabel

Blood vessel, Region of vascular tree organ

present in taxon

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