Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meckel's_cartilage http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3693112 ]

Synonyms: primary mandinle Meckels cartilage ventral mandibular cartilage cartilago arcus pharyngei primi

This is just here as a test because I lose it

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database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

id

UBERON:0003107