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An ontology of gross anatomy covering metazoa. Works in concert with https://github.com/obophenotype/cell-ontology
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'central carpal bone' vs. 'centrale (fore)' #1481

Open balhoff opened 5 years ago

balhoff commented 5 years ago

Is there a distinction between central carpal bone and centrale (fore)?

Looks like @alex-dececchi opened a ticket (#461) about reviewing centrale terms a long time ago.

tfhayamizu commented 5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_bones "The remaining bones are simply numbered, as the first to fourth centralia (singular: centrale) ... " screen shot 2019-02-20 at 12 04 43 pm "the vast majority of later vertebrates, including modern amphibians, have undergone varying degrees of loss and fusion of these primitive bones, resulting in a smaller number of carpals. Almost all mammals and reptiles, for example ... [including mouse] have only a single centrale - and even this is missing in humans."

tfhayamizu commented 5 years ago

As I understand it, "centrale" refers to a class of centrally-located carpal and tarsal bones, only one of which remains in the forelimb of mouse (now labeled "central carpal bone" with synonym "centrale") while none are present in the human hand. Only one "centrale" element remains in the hindlimb of both mouse and human; this is referred to as the "navicular."