| Name: | dorsal aorta |
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| Synonyms: | DA, dorsal aortic root |
| Definition: | Principal unpaired, median artery of the trunk, leading from the paired roots (radices) of the dorsal aorta to the caudal artery. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000014] |
| Name: | focal adhesion |
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| Synonyms: | adhesion plaque, connecting hemi-adherens junction, focal contact, HAJ, hemi-adherens junction |
| Definition: | A cell-substrate junction that anchors the cell to the extracellular matrix and that forms a point of termination of actin filaments. In insects focal adhesion has also been referred to as hemi-adherens junction (HAJ). |
| Ontology: | GO: Cellular Component [GO:0005925] QuickGO AmiGO |