What's the Preferred Term - 2/15/2011

Recap from last week: Last week we had one response for the first preferred term and none for the second. Schulmeister stated "I use external male genitalia and copulatory apparatus and copulatory organ. If Latin, then armatura genitalis", later suggesting "armatura genitalis". We would like to maintain using English terms (as decided in a previous WTPT), so we will use "external male genitalia" for the preferred term for "HAO:0000312: The anatomical cluster that is composed of the cupula, gonostyle, volsella and the aedeagus". For the second term, representing "HAO:0000271: The ridge that is marginal or submarginal, extends along the dorsal margin of the propleuron and serves as the site of origin of the lateral propleuro-postoccipital muscle" we have chosen "dorsal propleural ridge".

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For this week:

ID: HAO:0000942

HYMGLOSSARY LINK: http://glossary.hymao.org/projects/32/public/ontology_class/show_expanded/1417

DEFINITION: The sclerite that is unpaired and located just dorsally of the basal part of the aedeagus in some Aculeata.

TERM OPTIONS: median lobe, spatha, uncus

HOMONYM NOTES: "uncus" is currently the preferred term for "HAO:0001041 - The abscissa that extends anteriorly from the stigmal vein."

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ID: HAO:0001027

HYMGLOSSARY LINK: http://glossary.hymao.org/projects/32/public/ontology_class/show_expanded/4527

DEFINITION: The line that traverses the mesoscutum between the antemedian and postmedian wing processes.

TERM OPTIONS: transscutal fissure, transscutal line, transscutal suture

HOMONYM NOTES: none

- 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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