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urinary bladder

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001255

distensible musculomembranous organ situated in the anterior part of the pelvic cavity in which urine collects before excretion[MP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_bladder http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
  • AAO:0000623
  • NCIT:C12414
  • EMAPA:18321
  • galen:UrinaryBladder
  • Wikipedia:Urinary_bladder
  • EV:0100098
  • UMLS:C0005682 (ncithesaurus:Bladder)
  • FMA:15900
  • BTO:0001418
  • EHDAA2:0000174
  • MESH:A05.810.161
  • SCTID:302512001
  • MAT:0000122
  • CALOHA:TS-1090
  • XAO:0000154
  • OpenCyc:Mx4rvVjMmZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
  • EFO:0000290
  • EHDAA:9328
  • VHOG:0000740
  • GAID:0000004
  • MIAA:0000122
  • MA:0000380
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim, major_organ

definition

distensible musculomembranous organ situated in the anterior part of the pelvic cavity in which urine collects before excretion[MP].

depicted by

Urinary:system.svg

external definition

A saccular organ in which urine accumulates before discharge from the body. [Bemis_WE, Functional_Anatomy_of_the_Vertebrates:_An_Evolutionary_Perspective, Glossary_G-29, Grande_L, Liem_KF, Third_Edition_(2001)_Orlando_Fla.:_Harcourt_College_Publishers, Walker_WF][VHOG]

Anatomical structure which consists of a membranous sac used to temporarily store urine until it is excreted from the body.[AAO]

has exact synonym

vesica urinaria

has related synonym

vesica

urocyst

homology notes

In tetrapods, the urinary bladder arises as an outpocketing of the cloaca. (...) The tetrapod urinary bladder appears first among amphibians and is present in Sphenodon, turtles, most lizards, ostriches among birds, and all mammals.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0001255

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_8782

taxon notes

The urinary bladder evolved in tetrapods. Birds to not possess a true urinary bladder, although Palaeognathae have an undifferentiated cloacal outpocketing that serves a similar function[https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/454]