The fundus glands (or fundic glands, or gastric glands) are found in the body and fundus of the stomach. They are simple tubes, two or more of which open into a single duct. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundic_glands ]
Synonyms: fundal gland fundus gland gastric gland of fundus of stomach gastric fundus gland gastric fundal gland
Term information
- NCIT:C32643
- SCTID:268338004
- Wikipedia:Fundic_glands
- UMLS:C0017130 (ncithesaurus:Fundic_Gland)
- EMAPA:27161
Consider FMA:14923 ! Principal gland of fundus of stomach. Added part_of to mucosa to be consistent with FMA pattern (note that Kardong places this in the glandular epithelium)
Term relations
- gastric gland
- mucous gland
- part of some mucosa of fundus of stomach
- has part some peptic cell
- has part some parietal cell