Subdivision of breast which consists of skin, connective tissue and smooth muscle bundle and modified sebaceous glands and which surrounds the nipple. [ FMA:67796 ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
database
cross reference
- Wikipedia:Areola
- MA:0000788
- FMA:67796
- UMLS:C0222608 (ncithesaurus:Areola)
- NCIT:C12368
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Brustwarze.JPG
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Female_Areola.jpg
Term relations
Subclass of:
- external soft tissue zone
- ectoderm-derived structure
- part of some mammary gland
- contributes to morphology of some mammary gland