A network of orbital structures of the eye that secrete and drain tears from the surface of the eyeball into the nasal cavity; these parts include the lacrimal glands, lacrimal lake, lacrimal ducts, lacrimal canals, lacrimal sacs, nasolacrimal ducts, and lacrimal puncta. [ MGI:anna ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

术语信息

database cross reference
  • NCIT:C32905
  • GAID:901
  • EMAPA:35462
  • Wikipedia:Lacrimal_apparatus
  • MA:0000274
  • MESH:D007765
  • FMA:55605
  • UMLS:C0022903 (ncithesaurus:Lacrimal_Apparatus)
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

UBPROP 0000012

this is an eye appendage in ncit, along with eyelid and eyebrow. in MA, part of eye surface part_of eye

definition

A network of orbital structures of the eye that secrete and drain tears from the surface of the eyeball into the nasal cavity; these parts include the lacrimal glands, lacrimal lake, lacrimal ducts, lacrimal canals, lacrimal sacs, nasolacrimal ducts, and lacrimal puncta.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Gray896.png

editor note

TODO - resolve canaliculus vs tear duct vs lacrimal vs nasolacrimal

has exact synonym

lacrymal system

apparatus lacrimalis

has related synonym

nasolacrimal system

nasolacrimal drainage system

lacrimal drainage system

id

UBERON:0001750