Alveolar Cell Type II

Preferred Label : Alveolar Cell Type II;

NCIt synonyms : Type II Pneumocyte;

NCIt definition : A pleomorphic cell of the pulmonary alveolar epithelium that secretes surfactant and is distinguished by abundant cytoplasm containing numerous lipid-rich multilamellar bodies.;

Details

Origin ID

C32055;

UMLS CUI

C0225700;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Alveolar Epithelium [NCIt concept]
- Epithelial Tissue [NCIt concept]
Associated anatomy of gene products
- C-Type Lectin Domain Family 4 Member M [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Alveolar Epithelial Cells [MeSH Descriptor]
- Type II alveolar epithelial cell [FMA entity]
- type II pneumocyte [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- Lamellar Body [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Type-II pneumocytes [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Cell [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Pneumocyte, type 2 (cell) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Type II alveolar epithelial cell [FMA entity]
- Type-II pneumocytes [MeSH concept]
- pneumocyte, type 2 [SNOMED Notion]

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