A vessel through which blood circulates in the body. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_vessel http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0001102 ]
Synonyms: vascular tree organ region region of vascular tree organ
Term information
- MA:0000060
- XAO:0001011
- EHDAA2:0003252
- UMLS:C0005847 (ncithesaurus:Blood_Vessel)
- EMAPA:32743
- AEO:0000207
- EHDAA:240
- GAID:169
- NLXANAT:090901
- BTO:0001102
- MESH:D001808
- Wikipedia:Blood_vessel
- VHOG:0001250
- TAO:0002137
- MAT:0000393
- ZFA:0005314
- NCIT:C12679
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvVjxlpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- FMA:50722
- CALOHA:TS-0080
- FMA:63183
- AAO:0011004
- EMAPA:35993
- SCTID:361097006
- EFO:0000817
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Any of the vessels through which blood circulates in the body.[AAO]
Any of the vessels through which blood circulates in the body. [XAO:0001011_][VHOG]
The appearance of Chordata and subsequently the vertebrates is accompanied by a rapid structural diversification of this primitive linear heart: looping, unidirectional circulation, an enclosed vasculature, and the conduction system.[well established][VHOG]
FMA:63183 Blood vessel is categorized as 'general anatomical term'. Suggestion to map to region of vascular tree from Terry H at JAX
consider adopting the EMAPA superclass 'vascular element', which includes microvasculature (e.g. capillaries), vascular plexus
Term relations
- cellular anatomical structure
- vessel
- develops from some vascular cord
- channel for some blood
- has part some blood vessel endothelial cell
- develops from some splanchnic layer of lateral plate mesoderm
- has quality some dendritic
- part of some blood vasculature
- has part some epithelial tube open at both ends
- capable of part of some blood circulation