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All terms in UBERON

Label	Id	Description
parotid main excretory duct	UBERON_0001065	[The main excretory tubular canal that connects the parotid gland and the buccal mucosa and secretes a serous saliva into the vestibule of the oral cavity; it arises from the anterior surface of the gland, traversing the masseter muscle; the duct then pierces the buccinator muscle, moving medially, and opens out into the oral cavity near the second upper molar; saliva produced by acinar secretory cells in the glandular body flows sequentially through the intercalated ducts, striated ducts, and excretory ducts.]
whorl of hair	UBERON_0014381	[A patch of hair growing in the opposite direction of the rest of the hair.]
flexor digitorum brevis muscle	UBERON_0014380	[The flexor digitorum brevis lies in the middle of the sole of the foot, immediately above the central part of the plantar aponeurosis, with which it is firmly united. Its deep surface is separated from the lateral plantar vessels and nerves by a thin layer of fascia.]
aryepiglottic fold	UBERON_0014385	[The entrance of the larynx is a triangular opening, narrow in front, wide behind, and sloping obliquely downward and backward. It is bounded, in front, by the epiglottis; behind, by the apices of the arytenoid cartilages, the corniculate cartilages, and the interarytenoid notch; and on either side, by a fold of mucous membrane, enclosing ligamentous and muscular fibers, stretched between the side of the epiglottis and the apex of the arytenoid cartilage; this is the aryepiglottic fold, on the posterior part of the margin of which the cuneiform cartilage forms a more or less distinct whitish prominence, the cuneiform tubercle. These folds form the upper borders of the quadrangular membrane.]
kidney collecting duct epithelium	UBERON_0014388	[The simple cuboidal epithelium lining the lumen of kidney collecting ducts.]
vertebral endplate	UBERON_0014386	[Either of the the top and bottom portions of the vertebral bodies that interface with the vertebral discs. It is composed of a layer of thickened cancellous bone.]
sulcus ypsiloniformis	UBERON_2000589
superficial cervical artery	UBERON_0001071	[It ascends beneath the anterior margin of the trapezius, distributing branches to it, and to the neighboring muscles and lymph glands in the neck, and anastomosing with the superficial branch of the descending branch of the occipital artery.]
obsolete predominantly white dorsal regional part of metathalamus	UBERON_0027687
embryoid body	UBERON_0014374	[Embryoid bodies (EBs) are three-dimensional aggregates of pluripotent stem cells.]
fibroelastic membrane of larynx	UBERON_0014372	[A layer of fibrous and elastic fibers, taking the place of the submucosa in the larynx. It is divided by the laryngeal ventricle into two parts: the quadrangular membrane superiorly and the conus elasticus inferiorly.]
thenar muscle	UBERON_0014376	[Any of the muscles of the thenar eminence, a raised fleshy area on the palm of the hand near the base of the thumb.]
superficial pelvic adductor	UBERON_2000592
superior reticular formation medial column	UBERON_2000593
pelvic fin actinotrichium	UBERON_2000596	[Actinotrichium that is part of the pelvic fin.]
adductor hallucis muscle	UBERON_0014379	[The Adductor hallucis (Adductor obliquus hallucis) arises by two headsboblique and transverse and is responsible for adducting the big toe. It is innervated by the lateral plantar nerve. It evolved from the contrahens I muscle as Man's ancestors' thumbs and big toes became opposable.]
guard scale	UBERON_4200093
inner digits of hand	UBERON_4200094	[The medial most digit of the manus skeleton.]
mucosa of transverse colon	UBERON_0004991	[A mucosa that is part of a transverse colon [Automatically generated definition].]
ethomosphenoid region	UBERON_4200091	[Region consisitng of the ethmoid and sphenoid bones.]