Wide thin-walled blood vessels in the liver. In mammals they have neither veinous or arterial markers. [ http://zfin.org/curator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic_sinusoid ]
Synonyms: liver sinusoid vas capillare sinusoideum liver hepatic sinusoids liver sinusoidal blood vessel vas sinusoideum sinusoid of liver sinusoidal blood vessel of liver
Term information
- EHDAA2:0000999
- EMAPA:17365
- SCTID:67435004
- Wikipedia:Hepatic_sinusoid
- FMA:17543
- ZFA:0005091
- NCIT:C32733
- UMLS:C0227523 (ncithesaurus:Hepatic_Sinusoid)
- MA:0000367
- TAO:0005091
- VHOG:0000708
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
(...) the amphibian liver has characteristics in common with both fish and terrestrial vertebrates. (...) The histological structure of the liver is similar to that in other vertebrates, with hepatocytes arranged in clusters and cords separated by a meshwork of sinusoids and the presence of the traditional triad of portal venule, hepatic arteriole, and bile duct.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- liver blood vessel
- sinusoid
- part of some liver lobule
- part of some vasculature of liver
- develops in some lobe of liver
- contributes to morphology of some liver lobule
- connected to some central vein of liver