costal cartilage

The nonvascular, resilient, flexible hyaline connective tissue that connects the end of a true rib to the sternum or the end of a false rib with the with the lower border of the costal cartilage above it. [ MP:0006432 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-8036-0655-9 ]

Preferred root terms

All terms

This is just here as a test because I lose it

database cross reference

Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

latin term

cartilagines costales [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costal_cartilage ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Gray315.png

editor note

we currently model this as part of the rib, is this correct?

has related synonym

cartilago costalis

sternal cartilage

cartilagines costales

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0002236

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