Primary germ layer that is the outer of the embryo's three germ layers and gives rise to epidermis and neural tissue. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoderm ]
Synonyms: embryonic ectoderm
Term information
- UMLS:C0013574 (ncithesaurus:Ectoderm)
- BILA:0000036
- TAO:0000016
- MAT:0000155
- Wikipedia:Ectoderm
- EFO:0000414
- ZFA:0000016
- GAID:1304
- MAT:0000173
- CALOHA:TS-0216
- MESH:D004475
- MIAA:0000173
- FMA:69070
- FBbt:00000111
- BTO:0000315
- SCTID:362851007
- VHOG:0000153
- EV:0100003
- EMAPA:16069
- AAO:0000137
- NCIT:C12703
- EHDAA2:0000428
- XAO:0000001
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Primary germ layer that is the outer of the embryonic germ layers and gives rise to epidermis and neural tissue.[AAO]
The Bilateria are triploblastic (with true endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm) (...).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- germ layer
- cellular anatomical structure
- immediate transformation of some presumptive ectoderm
- has part some ectodermal cell