Ectodermal placode that develops in the head into a part of the sensory nervous system. With a few exceptions (lens, adenohypophyseal), cranial placodes are neurogenic. [ https://sourceforge.net/p/obo/xenopus-anatomy-xao-term-requests/11/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53175/ https://github.com/seger/aao/issues/4 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/135 ]
Synonyms: ectodermal cranial placode
Term information
- FMA:293966
- MIAA:0000369
- XAO:0000305
- MAT:0000369
- EFO:0001650
- AAO:0010466
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