What's the Preferred Term - 1/19/2011

**Starting this week we will be posting 2 WTPT questions at a time. This should hasten our completion of the exercise and expand the subject matter each week to broaden interest.**

Recap from last week: For the concept "The area that is median and located between the notauli" two people (Jennings & Tucker) chimed-in and said they preferred either "medial lobe of mesoscutum", "median mesonotal lobe", or "median mesoscutal lobe". These terms are very similar, but we chose "medial lobe of mesoscutum" since it is published and specific to the mesoscutum (not just mesonotum). However, "lobe" has a particular meaning in the ontology and, for future reference, this should probably be termed an "area".

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For this week:

ID: HAO:0000990

HYMGLOSSARY LINK: http://glossary.hymao.org/projects/32/public/ontology_class/show_expanded/1040

DEFINITION: The projection that is median, single and located distally on the ventral margin of the tarsomere.

TERM OPTIONS: euplantula, plantar lobe, Sohlenbläschen, tarsal plantula, tarsal pulvillum

HOMONYM NOTES: none

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ID: HAO:0000102

HYMGLOSSARY LINK: http://glossary.hymao.org/projects/32/public/ontology_class/show_expanded/1765

DEFINITION: The anatomical cluster that is composed of the probasitarsus and calcar.

TERM OPTIONS: antenna cleaner, antennal cleaning organ, strigil, strigilis

HOMONYM NOTES: **strigilis** is also used as a term for HAO:0001222 "The anatomical cluster that is composed by transverse rows of setae on the median (posterior, inner) surface of the metabasitarsus."; **strigil** is also used as a term for HAO:0001106 "The basitarsus that is located on the protarsus."

- WHAT TERMS (from the above options) would you use to refer to these concepts?
- ARE THERE terms that we are missing for these concepts?

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