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limb

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A paired appendage that is evolved from a paired fin. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the girdle and its parts. [ UBERONREF:0000003 ]

Synonyms: pentadactyl limb, tetrapod limb, free limb, limb sensu Vertebrata

Term info

database cross reference
  • MA:0000007
  • EHDAA:8273
  • MAT:0000090
  • MIAA:0000090
  • SCTID:243996003
  • AAO:0010336
  • CALOHA:TS-0552
  • XAO:0003027
  • VSAO:0000121
  • NCIT:C12429
  • Wikipedia:Limb
  • UMLS:C0015385 (ncithesaurus:Limb)
  • galen:Extremity
  • AEO:0000172
  • EFO:0000876
  • GAID:36
  • EMAPA:16405
  • VHOG:0000336
  • EHDAA2:0003172
  • FMA:24875
  • EHDAA:1697
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

plural term
extremities

UBPROP 0000001

Organism subdivision that has as its parts the jointed appendages used for locomotion and manipulation.[AAO]

UBPROP 0000003

Most anatomists now agree that the three proximal bones of the tetrapod limbs are homologous to the two or three proximal elements of the paired fin skeleton of other sarcopterygians, that is the humerus-femur, radius-tibia, and ulna-fibula.[well established][VHOG]

has related synonym

extremities, extremity

id

UBERON:0002101

prefLabel

Free limb