| Name: | hypobranchial bone |
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| Synonyms: | hypobranchial bones |
| Definition: | Hypobranchials are the most medial of the bilaterally paired elements of the gill arches. Hypobranchial ossifications 1-3 (of 4) develop in the small hypobranchial cartilages that lie between the medial tips of the ceratobranchials and copula 2. The hypobranchials articulate anteromedially with the basibranchials. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000363] |
| Name: | poorly ossified |
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| Definition: | A quality inhering in an bearer by virtue of the bearer's possessing only minor levels of ossification. |
| Ontology: | Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0002480] |