Term Name: head
Synonyms: adult head, cephalic area, head (volume)
Definition: The head is the anterior-most division of the body [GO].
Ontology: Cell Ontology [UBERON:0000033]

Relationships
is part of: craniocervical region
has parts: adipose eyelid antenna beak camera-type eye cephalic clasper cephalic dermal scale collection of hairs on vertex cranial appendage cranial blood vasculature cranial ganglion cranial lymph vasculature cranial midline area cranial neuron projection bundle cranial placode cranial salt gland dorsal bursa ear elephant trunk embryonic facial prominence epicranium external ear feathered ear tuft frontonasal prominence future piston future pituitary gland hair of head hairline head blood vessel head bone head capsule head connective tissue head electric organ head external integument structure head mesenchyme head segment head sensillum interorbital septum joint of auditory ossicle junk chamber left ear left outer canthus lymph node of head maxillary sinus median external naris melon organ monkey lips dorsal bursa complex mormyromast organ mouth mucosa of sphenoidal sinus musculature of head naris nasal air sac nerve of head region neural tube derived brain nuchal hump occipitofrontalis muscle paired venous dural sinus piston cartilage posterior surface of head priapium Rathke's pouch right ear right outer canthus roof of mouth scalp skin of head skull spermaceti spermaceti organ spine appendage of head subdivision of head vasculature of head
is a type of: subdivision of organism along main body axis
has subtype: embryonic head insect adult head insect head larval head