Term: blood island common myeloid progenitor
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Name: blood island
Synonyms: blood islands, caudal hematopoietic tissue, posterior blood island, posterior ICM
Definition: Nests of developing blood cells arising late in the segmentation period from the intermediate mass, and located in the anterior-ventral tail, just posterior to the yolk extension.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000094]
Name: common myeloid progenitor
Synonyms: CMP, colony forming unit granulocyte, erythrocyte, macrophage, and megakaryocyte, multipotential myeloid stem cell, myeloid stem cell, pluripotent stem cell (bone marrow)
Definition: A progenitor cell committed to myeloid lineage, including the megakaryocyte and erythroid lineages.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009021]