One of the parts of a holometabolous insect larva that will become a portion of the outside of the adult insect during the pupal transformation. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginal_disc ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
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cross reference
- BTO:0004658
- FBbt:00001761 (ManualMappingCuration)
- MESH:D060227 (https://github.com/biopragmatics/biomappings)
- MAT:0000064
- Wikipedia:Imaginal_disc
- MIAA:0000064
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uberon_slim
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Though inaginal discs are sometimes described as “epithelial sacs”, we do not classify them as such, because an “epithelial sac” is defined in Uberon as being a single epithelium, whereas imaginal discs are made of several epithelia with distinct properties.