ethmoid bone

UBERON:0001679 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. As such, it is located at the roof of the nose, between the two orbits. The cubical bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction. The ethmoid bone is one of the bones that makes up the orbit of the eye[WP]. — 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 > Skeletal system > Bone > Scull: Ethmoid	—

Broader habitats

endochondral bone UBERON:0002513
facial bone UBERON:0003462
neurocranium bone UBERON:0011164
Bone habitatmech:GOLD.67f49f8b15

Also called

Scull: Ethmoid — GOLD
ethmoid — UBERON
ethmoidal bone — UBERON
os ethmoidale — 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:0001679 'ethmoid bone' (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. GOLD writes 'Scull: Ethmoid'; the path is Skeletal system > Bone, so the ethmoid bone is meant. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Skeletal system > Bone > Scull: Ethmoid (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.55cb603eb1)

Provenance

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