| Term: | supraneural bone tissue |
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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: | supraneural |
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| Synonyms: | sn |
| Definition: | Supraneurals independent, median, elongate, rod-like cartilages or bones in the dorsal skeletogenous septum between the cranium and the dorsal fin. In actinopterygians, supraneurals develop from cartilages that are independent of the neural spine (Arratia et al., 2001). |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000442] |
| Name: | bone tissue |
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| Definition: | Skeletal tissue with a collagen-rich extracellular matrix vascularized, mineralized with hydroxyapatite and typically including osteocytes located in lacunae that communicate with one another by cell processes (in canaliculi). Bone is deposited by osteoblasts. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005621] |