cerumen

UBERON:0002297 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The yellow or brown waxy secretions produced by vestigial apocrine sweat glands in the external ear canal[MESH]. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Ceruminous glands > Cerumen/Earwax	—

Broader habitats

sweat UBERON:0001089
cerumen gland UBERON:0013211

Also called

Cerumen/Earwax — GOLD
ear wax — UBERON
earwax — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0002297 'cerumen' (EXACT). Variant-match review (#12): the seeder grounds on exact labels only, so GOLD's slash and plural conventions hid a term that says exactly this. Cerumen is earwax, defined by UBERON as the waxy secretion of the external auditory canal. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Ceruminous glands > Cerumen/Earwax (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.aea4a5fe91)

Provenance

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