endothelium
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001986
A layer of epithelium that lines the heart, blood vessels (endothelium, vascular), lymph vessels (endothelium, lymphatic), and the serous cavities of the body[MESH]. Simple squamous epithelium which lines blood and lymphatic vessels and the heart[FMA]. [ MESH:A10.272.491 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/225 FMA:63916 ]
Term info
- MESH:D004727
- GAID:520
- http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0014257
- CALOHA:TS-0278
- BTO:0000393
- galen:Endothelium
- http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/27168002
- EFO:0002548
- FMA:63916
- SCTID:27168002
- UMLS:C0014257 (ncithesaurus:Endothelium)
- NCIT:C12481
uberon_slim, efo_slim, human_reference_atlas
endothelial
The term 'endothelium' has been either restricted to the continuous cell layer of the vertebrates, as we are assuming here, or applied to all the cells able to adhere to the luminal surface of the vascular basement membrane (Casley-Smith 1980)
uberon
UBERON:0001986
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl
Endothelium
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- simple squamous epithelium
- meso-epithelium
- composed primarily of some endothelial cell
- only in taxon some Vertebrata