| Term: | intestine chordoma |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | intestine |
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| Definition: | Folded tube that has parts intestinal bulb, mid intestine and posterior intestine. The intestine is where digestion and nutrient absorption occurs. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001338] |
| Name: | chordoma |
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| Definition: | Believed to arise from primitive notochord remnants . Usually occurs along the axial skeleton and is characterised by the presence of bubble cells containing large unstained cytoplasmic vacuoles with central or eccentricc nuclei. Benign but locally invasive. (M-9370/3). |
| Ontology: | MPATH [MPATH:405] |