Anatomical cavity at the start of the digestive tract that that is enclosed by the mouth. The boundaries and contents vary depending on the species. In vertebrates, the boundaries are the oral opening, the cheeks, the palate and (if present) the palatoglossal arch - if this is not present then the mouth and pharynx form the oropharyngeal cavity. The buccal cavity contains the teeth, tongue and palate (when present). [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0073040584 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/wiki/The-digestive-tract https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Synonyms: cavity of mouth buccal cavity
Term information
- UMLS:C0226896 (ncithesaurus:Oral_Cavity)
- WBbt:0005255
- EMAPA:17411
- EHDAA2:0001324
- EV:0100057
- EFO:0001975
- BSA:0000107
- AAO:0000960
- ZFA:0001027
- EHDAA:6970
- VHOG:0000188
- HAO:0000669
- TAO:0001027
- SCTID:181220002
- FMA:20292
- NCIT:C12421
- EMAPA:18399
- TGMA:0000102
- CALOHA:TS-1315
- XAO:0000126
- AAO:0000053
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
The cavity of the mouth, bounded by the jaw bones and associated structures (muscles and mucosa). [TFD][VHOG]
Anatomical cavity bounded anteriorly by the mouth and posteriorly by the derivatives of the branchial arches.[AAO]
Echinoderms, hemichordates, and chordates are called deuterostomes because the mouth arises not from the blastopore but from a second invagination at the anterior end of the larva that pushes in to connect with the archenteron.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- anatomical space
- anatomical cavity
- immaterial entity
- contributes to morphology of some mouth
- part of some mouth
- luminal space of some mouth