Preferred Label : irregular bone;
Uberon definition : The irregular bones are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as
long bone, short bone, flat bone or sesamoid bone. Irregular bones serve various purposes
in the body, such as protection of nervous tissue, affording multiple anchor points
for skeletal muscle attachment (as with the sacrum), and maintaining pharynx and trachea
support, and tongue attachment (such as the hyoid bone). They consist of cancellous
tissue enclosed within a thin layer of compact bone. The irregular bones are: the
vertebrC&, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible,
palatine, inferior nasal concha, and hyoid.;
Uberon synonym : os irregulare;
Origin ID : 0008001;
UMLS CUI : C0502414;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Uberon cross reference
The irregular bones are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as
long bone, short bone, flat bone or sesamoid bone. Irregular bones serve various purposes
in the body, such as protection of nervous tissue, affording multiple anchor points
for skeletal muscle attachment (as with the sacrum), and maintaining pharynx and trachea
support, and tongue attachment (such as the hyoid bone). They consist of cancellous
tissue enclosed within a thin layer of compact bone. The irregular bones are: the
vertebrC&, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible,
palatine, inferior nasal concha, and hyoid.
