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ependyma

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The thin epithelium-like membrane composed of ependymal cells that lines the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ependyma https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0387949542 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Synonyms: ependymal epithelium ependyma of neuraxis

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Gray667.png

external ontology notes

FMA breaks ependyma into ependyma proper (a subdivsion of epithelium) and epithelium of choroid plexus

has related synonym

lamina epithelialis

id

UBERON:0004670

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0005604

structure notes

unlike other epithelia, there is no basement membrane under the ependymal epithelium[ISBN:0387949542]