Term Name: hepatic sinusoid
Synonyms: hepatic sinusoids, liver hepatic sinusoids, liver sinusoid, liver sinusoidal blood vessel, sinusoid of liver, sinusoidal blood vessel of liver, vas capillare sinusoideum, vas sinusoideum
Definition: Wide thin-walled blood vessels in the liver. In mammals they have neither veinous or arterial markers.
Ontology: Cell Ontology [UBERON:0001281]

Relationships
is part of: liver liver lobule vasculature of liver
has parts: endothelial cell of hepatic sinusoid hepatic sinusoidal space
is a type of: endo-epithelium liver blood vessel sinusoid
has subtype: caudate lobe hepatic sinusoid hepatic sinusoid of left of lobe of liver hepatic sinusoid of right of lobe of liver quadrate lobe hepatic sinusoid
inverse located_in: hepatic pit cell Kupffer cell liver CD103-negative dendritic cell liver CD103-positive dendritic cell