Cartilage tissue that is flexible and contains abundant elastic fibers. [ VSAO:0000091 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 PSPUB:0000170 ]
Synonyms: yellow elastic cartilage elastic cartilage yellow elastic cartilage tissue elastic cartilage tissue
Term information
- UMLS:C0682559 (ncithesaurus:Elastic_Cartilage)
- XAO:0004197
- FMA:64785
- MA:0000485
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_cartilage
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0682559
- VSAO:0000091
- MA:0000107
- NCIT:C32494
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
Cartilage tissue that is flexible and contains abundant elastic fibers.[VSAO]
Cartilage (tissue) which consists of chondrocytes and collagen, the intercellular matrix of which consists of elastic fibers[FMA:64785].