| Name: | posterior cardinal vein |
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| Synonyms: | axial vein, caudal cardinal veins, PCV, postcardinal vein |
| Definition: | Continuation of the caudal vein cranial to the anal pore. The cardinal vein splits into a pair of vessels in the cranial trunk, just caudal to the radix of the aorta. The posterior cardinals each empty into the common cardinal vein. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000477] |
| Name: | broken |
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| Synonyms: | burst, cracked, fractured, fragmented, hemorrhaged, split, torn |
| Definition: | A structural quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's components no longer being in a single contiguous unit. |
| Ontology: | Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0001444] |