A tube extending from the mouth to the anus. [ Wikipedia:Talk:Human_gastrointestinal_tract https://github.com/geneontology/go-ontology/issues/7549 ]
Synonyms: digestive tube enteric tract
Term information
- BILA:0000083
- FBbt:00003125
- BTO:0000511
- AAO:0010023
- ZFA:0000112
- BTO:0000545
- WBbt:0005743
- EHDAA:518
- NCIT:C34082
- TAO:0000112
- FMA:45615
- UMLS:C0017189 (ncithesaurus:Gastrointestinal_Tract)
- galen:AlimentaryTract
- MA:0000917
- EMAPA:16247
- EHDAA2:0000726
- TGMA:0001819
- VHOG:0000309
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvVi0GpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
uberon_slim, vertebrate_core
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_147099
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_41324
The bilaterian gut is typically a complete tube that opens to the exterior at both ends. It consists of mouth, foregut, midgut, hindgut, and anus (reference 1); Although all vertebrates have a digestive tract and accessory glands, various parts of this system are not necessarily homologous, analogous, or even present in all species. Therefore, broad comparisons can be best made under the listings of headgut, foregut, midgut, pancreas and biliary system, hindgut (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
FMA also has a term 'gastrointestinal tract', but this includes the liver.
we place the MA and EMAPA class here, although the intent is probably a smaller region. See https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/509
we following Kardong in naming the entire tube from mouth to anus the alimentary canal. Kardong calls the portion of this tract that excludes buccal cavity and pharynx the 'alimentary canal', consider adding an extra class for this
Term relations
- tube
- connects some mouth
- only in taxon some Eumetazoa
- immediate transformation of some presumptive gut
- part of some digestive system
- epithelial cell of alimentary canal
- subdivision of digestive tract
- anus
- foregut-midgut junction
- digestive tract epithelium
- gastrointestinal system mucosa
- gland of digestive tract
- food storage organ
- lumen of digestive tract
- cloaca
- submucosa of digestive tract
- muscular coat of digestive tract
- mouth-foregut junction
- gut wall