The proximal portion of the digestive tract, containing the oral cavity and bounded by the oral opening. In vertebrates, this extends to the pharynx and includes gums, lips, tongue and parts of the palate. Typically also includes the teeth, except where these occur elsewhere (e.g. pharyngeal jaws) or protrude from the mouth (tusks). [ https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/wiki/The-digestive-tract http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouth ]
Synonyms: regio oralis
Term information
- AAO:0010355
- EFO:0000825
- EHDAA:542
- null:http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/images/lamprey_sucker_rosava_3238889218.jpg
- ZFA:0000547
- SCTID:21082005
- MIAA:0000038
- FBbt:00003126
- Wikipedia:Mouth
- EHDAA2:0001326
- TGMA:0000131
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvVidh5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- FMA:49184
- MAT:0000038
- MA:0002474
- TADS:0000040
- TAO:0000590
- MESH:D009055
- EMAPA:16262
- GAID:75
- TAO:0000547
- VHOG:0000280
- CALOHA:TS-1315
- galen:Mouth
- XAO:0003029
- ZFA:0000590
- BTO:0001090
- BTO:0004698
- VHOG:0000812
- MA:0000341
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, major_organ
Cavity in which food is initially ingested and generally contains teeth, tongue and glands.[AAO]
Molecular and developmental cell lineage data suggest that the acoel mouth opening is homologous to the mouth of protostomes and deuterostomes and that the last common ancestor of the Bilateria (the 'urbilaterian') had only this single digestive opening.[well established][VHOG]
some AOs place this as developing from the stomodeum but we weaken this to developmental contribution, as the mouth includes non-ectodermal derivatives
in FMA, the tongue, palate etc are part of the mouth which is itself a subdivision of the face. ZFA includes a separate class 'oral region' which is part of the mouth, but excludes tongue and lips
mouth cavity
oral vestibule
cavum oris
trophic apparatus
stomatodaeum
cavitas oris
stoma
cavital oralis
vestibulum oris
rima oris
oral region
vestibule of mouth
Term relations
- subdivision of digestive tract
- part of some head
- overlaps some respiratory system
- proximalmost part of some digestive tract
- develops from some future mouth
- only in taxon some Eumetazoa