The distalmost portion of the digestive tract, derived from the hindgut, and terminating with the anus. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
IAO 0000232
this class is the superclass of 'rectum', which is currently reserved for the vertebrate structure. May be merged in future.