Skeletal element within the mouth (or in some species, upper part of the digestive tract) that is composed of dentine and is used in procuring or masticating food. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_(animal) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Synonyms: dentine containing tooth vertebrate tooth dental element tooth

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
  • GAID:1260
  • TAO:0001625
  • VHOG:0001733
  • EFO:0000839
  • MAT:0000041
  • MA:0000348
  • MESH:D014070
  • ZFA:0000694
  • EV:0100063
  • XAO:0000431
  • FMA:12516
  • CALOHA:TS-1055
  • SCTID:302214001
  • UMLS:C0040426 (ncithesaurus:Tooth)
  • NCIT:C12506
  • BTO:0000397
  • MIAA:0000041
  • AEO:0000220
  • EMAPA:32906
  • Wikipedia:Tooth
  • EHDAA2:0004605
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Teeth_by_David_Shankbone.jpg

editor note

we place ZFA ctb 5 tooth here for now. Consider changing name from calcaeeous tooth. Note that sea cucumbers develop calcareous tooth-like structures

homology notes

The ancestor of recent vertebrate teeth was a tooth-like structure on the outer body surface of jawless fishes.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0001091

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_189497

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9761

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9257

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_8782

taxon notes

absent in living platypus, present in toothed Miocene platypus Obduron dicksoni