Rod Outer Segment

Preferred Label : Rod Outer Segment;

NCIt synonyms : Rod Outer Segment of the Retina; Rod Outer Segments;

NCIt definition : A portion of the retinal rod cell largely consisting of a stack of discs (membrane infoldings that are incompletely separated in cones) that are continually replenished near the inner segment and that are shed from the distal end and phagocytosed by the pigmented epithelium.;

Details

Origin ID

C12639;

UMLS CUI

C0035798;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Retinal Rod [NCIt concept]
Associated anatomy of gene products
- Rhodopsin [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Outer segment of rod cell [FMA entity]
- rod cell outer segment [MeSH Descriptor]
- rod cell outer segment [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Cell Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Outer segment of rod cell [FMA entity]
- rod cell outer segment [MeSH Descriptor]
- rod cell outer segment [MeSH concept]

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