pineal body

pineal body

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001905

A midline, cone like structure located in the dorso-caudal roof of the 3rd ventricle, attached by peduncles to the habenular and posterior commissures. The stalk contains nerve fibers, blood vessels, connective tissue and parenchymal cells (Paxinos, The Rat Central Nervous System, 2nd ed, pg 399). [ BIRNLEX:1184 ]

Synonyms: corpus pineale pineal gland glandula pinealis pineal organ

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BAMS:Pi
NCIT:C12398
AAO:0010549
CALOHA:TS-0789
EV:0100131
MA:0000175
EMAPA:18778
MESH:D010870
MBA:953
BTO:0001067
EV:0100221
VHOG:0000051
XAO:0000160
DHBA:10460
FMA:62033
EHDAA2:0001466
GAID:453
EFO:0000865
MAT:0000448
UMLS:C0031939 (ncithesaurus:Pineal_Gland)
BIRNLEX:1184
NLXANAT:1010009
BAMS:PIN
ZFA:0000019
galen:PinealGland
EHDAA:7523
TAO:0000019
Wikipedia:Pineal_gland
SCTID:181126002
HBA:4532
BM:P
neuronames:297 (BIRNLEX:1184)

Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, organ_slim, human_reference_atlas

indicates that a synonym is used in an inconsistent or confusing way, typically between species

epiphysis [ ZFA:0000019 ]

abbreviation

Pi [ BIRNLEX:1184 NIFSTD:NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

latin term

glandula pinealis [ FMA:TA FMA:62033 ]

axiom lost from external ontology

relationship loss: part_of pineal complex (TAO:0001359)[TAO]

depiction

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Illu_pituitary_pineal_glands.jpg

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/brain-male/v1.4/assets/3d-allen-m-brain.glb

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/brain-female/v1.4/assets/3d-allen-f-brain.glb

external definition

Anatomical structure which is a medial outgrowth of the thalamus on the dorsal surface of the brain. This structure is light sensitive and secretes melatonin when exposed to prolonged darkness.[AAO]

A circumscribed swelling, includes the pineal primordium that appears late in the segmentation period in the dorsal midline of the diencephalon. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]

has broad synonym

has related synonym

pineal

stirnorgan

conarium

epiphysis

epiphysis cerebri

pineal gland (Galen)

frontal organ

has obo namespace

uberon

has relational adjective

epiphysial

epiphyseal

homology notes

The pineal gland has evolved from a part of the epiphyseal complex of anamniotes, which includes a median light-receptive pineal eye, parietal eye, or both.[well established][VHOG]

UBERON:0001905

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001942

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001941

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569

taxon notes

lobulated in humans, homogeneous in mouse. Calcifies with age in humans.