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occipital lobe

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Posterior part of the cerebral hemisphere (MSH). [ BIRNLEX:1136 ]

Synonyms: regio occipitalis

Term info

database cross reference
  • GAID:678
  • UMLS:C0028785 (ncithesaurus:Occipital_Lobe)
  • BIRNLEX:1136
  • CALOHA:TS-0693
  • EFO:0000915
  • BTO:0000293
  • HBA:4180
  • SCTID:180923002
  • EV:0100170
  • FMA:67325
  • neuronames:140 (BIRNLEX:1136)
  • UMLS:C0028785 (BIRNLEX:1136)
  • MAT:0000507
  • Wikipedia:Occipital_lobe
  • MESH:D009778
  • NCIT:C12355
  • BAMS:OL
  • BAMS:Occipital_lobe
  • DHBA:12148
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

comment

In some species, parcellations of lobes are not well defined or at all, and therefore the occipital lobe could refer to the most posterior mammalian cerebral cortex.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gray727_occipital_lobe.png

has related synonym

lobus occipitalis

id

UBERON:0002021

prefLabel

occipital lobe, Occipital lobe

present in taxon

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