A midline, cone like structure located in the dorso-caudal roof of the 3rd ventricle, attached by peduncles to the habenular and posterior commissures. The stalk contains nerve fibers, blood vessels, connective tissue and parenchymal cells (Paxinos, The Rat Central Nervous System, 2nd ed, pg 399). [ BIRNLEX : 1184 ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
database
cross reference
- GAID:453
- galen:PinealGland
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=297 (BIRNLEX:1184)
- BAMS:PIN
- BTO:0001067
- EFO:0000865
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/181126002
- DHBA:10460
- OpenCyc:Mx4rv2FMGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- HBA:4532
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0031939
- VHOG:0000051
- FMA:62033
- BIRNLEX:1184
- EHDAA:7523
- TAO:0000019
- NLXANAT:1010009
- CALOHA:TS-0789
- UMLS:C0031939 (ncithesaurus:Pineal_Gland)
- EV:0100131
- MESH:D010870
- EHDAA2:0001466
- EV:0100221
- MA:0000175
- BAMS:Pi
- MAT:0000448
- MBA:953
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
- XAO:0000160
- NCIT:C12398
- AAO:0010549
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=297
- UMLS:C0031939 (BIRNLEX:1184)
- ZFA:0000019
- BM:P
- EMAPA:18778
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, organ_slim
latin term
glandula pinealis
[
FMA
:
TA
FMA
:
62033
]
latin term
glandula pinealis
[
FMA
:
TA
]
indicates that a synonym is used in an inconsistent or confusing way, typically between species
epiphysis
[
ZFA
:
0000019
]
abbreviation
Pi
[
BIRNLEX
:
1184
NIFSTD
:
NeuroNames_abbrevSource
]
axiom lost from external ontology
- relationship loss: part_of pineal complex (TAO:0001359)[TAO]
definition
- A midline, cone like structure located in the dorso-caudal roof of the 3rd ventricle, attached by peduncles to the habenular and posterior commissures. The stalk contains nerve fibers, blood vessels, connective tissue and parenchymal cells (Paxinos, The Rat Central Nervous System, 2nd ed, pg 399).
depicted by
- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Illu_pituitary_pineal_glands.jpg
external definition
- Anatomical structure which is a medial outgrowth of the thalamus on the dorsal surface of the brain. This structure is light sensitive and secretes melatonin when exposed to prolonged darkness.[AAO]
- A circumscribed swelling, includes the pineal primordium that appears late in the segmentation period in the dorsal midline of the diencephalon. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]
has exact synonym
- corpus pineale
- pineal gland
- pineal organ
- glandula pinealis
has obo namespace
- uberon
has related synonym
- pineal
- stirnorgan
- conarium
- epiphysis
- epiphysis cerebri
- pineal gland (Galen)
- frontal organ
has relational adjective
- epiphysial
- epiphyseal
homology notes
- The pineal gland has evolved from a part of the epiphyseal complex of anamniotes, which includes a median light-receptive pineal eye, parietal eye, or both.[well established][VHOG]
id
- UBERON:0001905
present in taxon
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569
taxon notes
- lobulated in humans, homogeneous in mouse. Calcifies with age in humans.
Term relations
Subclass of: