gingival groove

UBERON:0008805 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·CLOSE REVIEWED

The gingival sulcus is an area of potential space between a tooth and the surrounding gingival tissue and is lined by sulcular epithelium. The depth of the sulcus (Latin for groove) is bounded by two entities: apically by the gingival fibers of the connective tissue attachment and coronally by the free gingival margin. — 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 > Digestive system > Oral cavity > Gingival sulcus	—

Broader habitats

sulcus UBERON:0000093
Oral cavity habitatmech:GOLD.92d1e65695

Also called

Gingival sulcus — GOLD
gingival sulcus — UBERON
sulcus gingivalis — UBERON
tooth-gingiva interface — UBERON

Curation

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

REVIEW 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. CLOSE-grounding review (#12): read against the full source path and the term's own definition. The grounding is right and CLOSE is the honest status — the term is the concept with a difference of framing or specificity that EXACT would overstate. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.2f044b8c11)

Provenance

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