The ring-shaped cartilaginous structures that support the trachea. [ MP:0003120 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb J:97123 ]

Synonyms: cartilaginous trachea cartilage windpipe cartilage cartilage of windpipe cartilage of trachea tracheal cartilage cartilago trachealis cartilaginous ring of trachea

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Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Gray952.png

editor note

check whether to classify as part of splanchoncranium

has related synonym

cartilagines tracheales

trachea ring

tracheal ring

ring of the trachea

cartilage of the trachea

id

UBERON:0003604

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

taxon notes

in mammals the rings are incomplete, in avians the rings are complete.