the soft tissue that fills the cavities of bones [ MP:0002397 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg ]
Synonyms: medulla ossium medulla ossea
Term information
- MESH:D001853
- EFO:0000868
- NCIT:C12431
- VHOG:0001218
- GAID:1287
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvVm-FpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- AAO:0011007
- EMAPA:32760
- MIAA:0000084
- MA:0000134
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow
- CALOHA:TS-0087
- UMLS:C0005953 (ncithesaurus:Bone_Marrow)
- BTO:0000829
- EV:0100046
- XAO:0000123
- galen:BoneMarrow
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0005953
- BTO:0000141
- MAT:0000084
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/421320006
- FMA:9608
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim
consider placement of NCIT:C53466 medullary bone
TODO - create superclass for bone marrow / head kidney. both are portions of tissue in the hematopoetic system. also consider adding as subclass of zone of bone organ for consistency with FMA. See also: Leydig and epigonal organs
The bone marrow is the hematopoietic organ in all vertebrates but fishes, in which hematopoiesis occurs in the kidney.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- tissue
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some immune system
- part of some hematopoietic system
- part of some bone element
- has part some hematopoietic tissue