Term: optic fissure focal adhesion
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Name: optic fissure
Synonyms: choroid fissure, optic fissures
Definition: Groove that is in the ventral optic cup and through which blood vessels pass to the enclosed mesenchyme.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001284]
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