new term request - transition zone of prostate

[rachadele]

For new term requests, please provide the following information:

Preferred term label

transition zone of prostate

(e.g., Asplenia)

Synonyms

prostate transition zone transition zone of human prostate

(e.g., Absent spleen)

Textual definition

The region of the prostate gland anterior to the central and peripheral zones, surrounding the proximal urethra. It is the zone of the prostate gland that grows the most throughout life, and is responsible for benign prostatic hypertrophy.

the definition should be understandable even for non-specialists. Include a PubMed ID to refer to any relevant article that provides additional information about the suggested term.

Suggested parent term

Please look in the hierarchy in a browser such as OLS http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002367

Use case

Please specify under what circumstances you anticipate this term being used in the HCA metadata. Will be used for 'organ part' fields in HCA metadata spreadsheets.

Attribution

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7431-4139

If you would like a nanoattribution, please indicate your ORCID id

[paolaroncaglia]

@rachadele cc @dosumis I started a discussion in the Uberon tracker to figure out if this request (and 2 more from Rachel) are in scope for Uberon. If not, I'll add the terms in EFO. Thanks.

[rachadele]

amazing, thank you!

[paolaroncaglia]

@rachadele FYI I'm closing this ticket (and #66 and #67 ) as "duplicates" of https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/1670.