Preferred Label : Meckel's cartilage;
Uberon definition : Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component
of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults.;
Uberon synonym : ventral mandibular cartilage; Meckels cartilage; primary mandinle;
Uberon Homology note : In all jawed vertebrates, including fish, the first pharyngeal arch generates the
jaw apparatus. The neural crest cells of this arch migrate to form Meckel's cartilage,
the precursor of the jaw.[well established][VHOG];
Uberon Taxon note : functional lower jaw of Elasmobranchii and Holocephali, the embryonic lower jaw of
other gnathostomous vertebrates;
Origin ID : 0003107;
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Meckel's cartilage is the bilaterally paired, rod-like, cartilaginous ventral component
of the lower jar, or ventral mandibular arch. It is typically resorbed in adults.
