A division of the stomach. The stomach can be divided based on mucosal histology (glandular epithelium and gastric glands) and the relative position and type of gastric gland. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0073040584 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomach#Sections ]

Synonyms: region of stomach gastric zone section of stomach

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Regions_of_stomach.svg

editor note

We follow Kardong in defining stomach regions by gland, but we also include 'body of stomach'. In future we may want to have different partitions of the stomach

hasAlternativeId

UBERON:0009034

id

UBERON:0009870

Term relations