visceral abdominal adipose tissue
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0014454
Subcutaneous adipose tissue that is located in the peritoneal cavity. [ CALOHA:paula https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/259 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith ]
Term info
- CALOHA:TS-2405
- BTO:0004041
Adipose tissue located inside the peritoneal cavity, packed in between internal organs and torso. An excess of visceral fat is known as central obesity, or belly fat, the pot belly or beer belly effect, in which the abdomen protrudes excessively[BTO:0004041].
https://github.com/cmungall, https://github.com/paulacalipho, https://github.com/cindyJax
organ fat, abdominal fat, intra-abdominal adipose tissue, intra-abdominal fat, visceral fat, visceral adipose tissue
uberon
UBERON:0014454
Term relations
- adipose tissue and part of some abdomen and located in some peritoneal cavity and bounding layer of some viscus
- adipose tissue of abdominal region
- part of some viscus
- located in some peritoneal cavity
- bounding layer of some viscus