Foundational Model of Anatomy

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The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) is a reference

ontology for the domain of human anatomy.[1] It is a symbolic representation of the canonical, phenotypic structure of an organism; a spatial-structural ontology of anatomical entities and relations which form the physical organization of an organism at all salient levels of granularity
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FMA is developed and maintained by the Structural Informatics Group at the University of Washington.[2]

Description

FMA ontology contains approximately 75,000 classes and over 120,000 terms, over 2.1 million relationship instances from over 168 relationship types.[3]

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