Term: somite focal adhesion
Name: somite
Synonyms: somitic mesoderm
Definition: Undifferentiated mesodermal components of early trunk or tail segments or metameres, derived from paraxial mesoderm; forms myotomes, sclerotomes and perhaps dermatomes.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000155]

Name: focal adhesion
Synonyms: adhesion plaque, connecting hemi-adherens junction, focal contact, HAJ, hemi-adherens junction
Definition: A cell-substrate junction that anchors the cell to the extracellular matrix and that forms a point of termination of actin filaments. In insects focal adhesion has also been referred to as hemi-adherens junction (HAJ).
Ontology: GO: Cellular Component [GO:0005925]    QuickGO    AmiGO