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prostate gland

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002367


The prostate gland is a partly muscular, partly glandular body that is situated near the base of the mammalian male urethra and secretes an alkaline viscid fluid which is a major constituent of the ejaculatory fluid. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0030850 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate ]

Synonyms: prostate, male prostate

Term info

database cross reference
  • EMAPA:19287
  • MAT:0000078
  • BTO:0001129
  • UMLS:C0033572 (ncithesaurus:Prostate_Gland)
  • MA:0000404
  • EV:0100104
  • GAID:392
  • Wikipedia:Prostate
  • EFO:0000858
  • CALOHA:TS-0828
  • galen:ProstateGland
  • VHOG:0001261
  • MIAA:0000078
  • SCTID:181422007
  • FMA:9600
  • NCIT:C12410
  • MESH:D011467
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim, major_organ, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000007

prostatic

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Prostatelead.jpg

editor note

TODO - FMA treats the gland as part of the prostate - see also FMA:74119.

id

UBERON:0002367

prefLabel

Prostate

present in taxon

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

Term relations

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