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	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Oral cavity > Gingival crevice/sulcus	15	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

sulcus UBERON:0000093
Oral cavity habitatmech:GOLD.92d1e65695
Oral cavity habitatmech:GOLD.99880772e1

Also called

Gingival crevice/sulcus — GOLD
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)
GROUND 2026-09-06 · codex-gpt-5
Grounded to UBERON:0008805 'gingival groove' (NARROW). The committed gingival-crevice report found that UBERON:0008805 'gingival groove' is already vendored with 'gingival sulcus' as an exact synonym and already backs GOLD's generic Gingival sulcus source. The Human GOLD Gingival crevice/sulcus path names the same anatomical potential space between tooth and surrounding gingiva, but is scoped to human oral cavity, so skos:narrowMatch is the consistent predicate. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Oral cavity > Gingival crevice/sulcus (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.e97d0cb4b1)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.