synovium

BTO:0001823 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

The dense connective-tissue membrane that secretes synovial fluid and that lines the ligamentous surfaces of articular capsules, tendon sheaths where free movement is necessary, and bursae. — BTO

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.

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 > Joint capsule > Synovium/Synovial membrane	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Skeletal system > Joint capsule > Synovium	—

Broader habitats

Joint capsule habitatmech:GOLD.df92d9a85e
Joint capsule habitatmech:GOLD.e7296678c2

Also called

Synovium/Synovial membrane — GOLD

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0001823 'synovium' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Synovium/Synovial membrane'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.c0bdab9b90)

Provenance

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