costal cartilage

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002236

The nonvascular, resilient, flexible hyaline connective tissue that connects the end of a true rib to the sternum or the end of a false rib with the with the lower border of the costal cartilage above it. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-8036-0655-9&isbn=1/ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb MP:0006432 ]

database cross reference

Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Gray315.png

editor note

we currently model this as part of the rib, is this correct?

has related synonym

cartilago costalis, sternal cartilage, cartilagines costales

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0002236

prefLabel

Costal cartilage

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connects