Cartilage tissue that is flexible and contains abundant elastic fibers. [ PSPUB:0000170 VSAO:0000091 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 ]
Synonyms: yellow elastic cartilage elastic cartilage yellow elastic cartilage tissue elastic cartilage tissue
Term information
- VSAO:0000091
- MA:0000107
- NCIT:C32494
- UMLS:C0682559 (ncithesaurus:Elastic_Cartilage)
- XAO:0004197
- MA:0000485
- FMA:64785
- Wikipedia:Elastic_cartilage
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
Cartilage tissue that is flexible and contains abundant elastic fibers.[VSAO]
Cartilage (tissue) which consists of chondrocytes and collagen, the intercellular matrix of which consists of elastic fibers[FMA:64785].